Abstract
ABSTRACT An overview of the reasons for the World Bank credit facility of 120 million US dollars to Nigerian universities is given. The National Universities Commission (NUC)—the body responsible for disbursing the funds-is blamed for stifling the project implementation. An attempt is made to see how far the credit facility has solved long standing university library problems like poor quantity and quality of books and journals, lack of equipment and development and training of technologically obsolete library staff. The impact of the credit facility on information demand and supply in University of Agriculture, Makurdi library (which mirrors the circumstances of some third generation university libraries in Nigeria) is examined to find out if the World Bank credit life line is a palliative or panacea to the problem of information needs of university library users.
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