Consortium Building: A Leeway to Academic Library Development

Abstract

This paper looks at consortium building as a leeway to academic library development. It discusses the importance of it as a means of offering user access to more information materials. The perceived problems confronting effective library consortium building are highlighted. Its challenges arc also examined. The paper concludes by encouraging libraries to embrace the idea of having library consortium, since it is a sure way libraries can share from the human and material resources in each of the participating library.