This issue of Library Technology Reports responds to the economic situation with a timely report that offers a detailed look at the library-funding landscape and features expertly authored practical guidelines for stretching a library's budget as far as it can go. This issue grew out of ALA's Libraries Connect Communities Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study. Larra Clark is the project manager for the ALA Office for Research & Statistics. She joined the office in late January 2007 after working more than six years in the ALA Public Information Office as the manager of media relations. Clark is the editor and a contributing author for the Libraries Connect Communities Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study. She completed her master's in library science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in December 2006. Previously, she worked in nonprofit public affairs, media relations, and print journalism in Chicago and Arizona for more than 10 years. Denise Davis is the director of the Office for Research & Statistics at the American Library Association. In this position, she provides leadership and expert advice to ALA staff members and the public on all matters related to research and statistics about libraries and librarians; represents the Association to federal agencies on these issues; and initiates projects needed to expand the knowledge base of the field through research and the collection of useful statistics. Previously, Davis worked in academic, special, and public libraries; in administration at the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; and Oregon State Library.