Problems and prospects of Resource Sharing in Developing Countries

Abstract

The paper discusses the fundamental obstacles to resource sharing in developing countries which include the inadequacy of existing resources ,the lack of information about them and uncooperative attitudes and policies.the paper highlight the various planning and administrative factors which developing countries need to consider when planning designing their library resource sharing programmes.the paper finally concludes that resource sharing programmes based on computerised networks are not often technically feasible in developing countries and suggests that the skills of librarians ,more than anything else will determine the success of such developing countries