CONTEMPORARY-ISSUES IN COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS OF NIGERIAN UNIVERSITY-LIBRARIES

The article focuses on contemporary problems affecting the collection development programmes of university libraries in Nigeria. The global economic recession of the 1980's is identified as the significant vari able for the success and failure of these programmes the world over; h ence the treatment of the subject in both a global and national contex t. At the national level, special examination is made of the financial problems facing Nigerian university libraries and their impact on col lection growth and development. While the article agrees that improved budgetary provisions could eradicate the current constraints, it sugg ests that library co-operative networking should be adopted as a cost- effective option for future collection development in university libra ries in Nigeria. (C) 1995 Academic Press Limited