Problems of acquisition of library materials in the third world with reference to the University of Zambia library

In this work,an attempt is made to focus attention on some of the complicated problems which affect acquisitons of monographs and periodicals for use in libraries in the third world country,specific problems that are faced by the University of Zambia library by virtue of it being an academic library are also discussed.In addition,since publishers in industrialised countries are producing or are in the process of producing their products in machine readable format,the implications of electronic publishing for third world countries are discussed