), published in September 0000, confirms that both trends continue. "Library budget growth remains a top concern, generally lagging behind annual inflation in journal pricing in spite of the annual price increase caps applied to many e-journal packages....Though overall budgets in the U.S. academic library market show modest improvements, the budget for serials materials generally have not kept pace with annual journal price inflation." See Stephen Bosch, Barbara Albee, and Sion Romaine, Costs Outstrip Library Budgets: Periodicals Price Survey 0000, Library Journal, April 00, 0000 (perma.cc link): "A Strategic Library 0000 Library Purchasing Survey of libraries of all types reported that almost 00 percent of respondents had a flat budget. The latest Publishers Communication Group (PCG) whitepaper Library Budget Predictions for 0000 reports that overall library budget predictions for growth are modest at a 0 percent increase....The 0 to 0 percent average price increase observed in 0000 is expected to remain constant for 0000, and this will lead to further contraction of resources for library users." See Dan Pollock and Ann Michael, Library Spending and the Serials Crisis, DeltaThink, May 0, 0000 (perma.cc link): "[M]edian spending on journals...continues to increase in real terms (regardless of the inflation index used), while overall library spend are now declining. This suggests that budgets, too, are in real terms decline." 