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This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/02641619910299272. When citing the article, please cite: Brimah Jalloh, (1999), “A plan for the establishment of a library network or consortium for Swaziland: preliminary investigations and formulations”, Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 27 Iss 4 pp. 158 - 165.

This paper very briefly attempts to describe the activities of the Commonwealth Regional Health Community Secretariat/Namibia Dissemination Centre based at the University of Namibia, one of the institutions that was identified as a partner institution to serve in the Secretariat’s information dissemination network in reproductive health and nutrition programmes. The establishment of the information dissemination network itself arose from a workshop held in Arusha, Tanzania in 1995 and attended by Dissemination Centre representatives from thirteen member countries. The University of Namibia Library is part of the University of Namibia, one of the institutions that has an important role to play in the youngest nations in Africa. The library has modern facilities and the resources and interest to run the activities of the Dissemination Centre. It undertook desk and field research and produced information sources on Nutrition and Reproductive Health.

Libraries and Information Services (LIS) are being transformed by technology; consequently, LIS are having to adapt to meet their users’ changing needs and growing expectations. Included among the resource‐sharing initiatives conceived by libraries in Swaziland is the creation of a computerised network or consortium of all LIS. Reports on the preliminary investigations and formulations carried out to assess the feasibility or viability of such a network. Evaluates the existing resources and facilities, affirms and confirms the perceived need for resource sharing and library networking, establishes present obstacles for library cooperation, and proposes a scheme or framework within which the network can be achieved for optimum use.