Collection development policy: A panacea for collection development challenges in university libraries in Africa

Collection development is faced with various challenges such as decreasing budget allocation, increasing cost of materials, demand for information, the complexity electronic resources, and legal issues arising from copyright censorship. To meet these challenges, university libraries in developed countries have adopted different strategies using a written collection policy (CDP) to guide their activities. However, Africa are lagging this regard. It either they not formulated or used it Therefore, study argues that CDP, if well prepared used, can address facing provide standard collections necessary teaching research activities communities. Specifically, paper discusses major establishes ways which CDP could be overcome them. Methodologically, based on review related literature. The contains literature papers discussing