Networking of College Libraries in Eritrea (Africa) Bajpai Yogesh Lecturer, DLISc, College of Natural and Computational Science, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia, (Africa) Online published on 16 May, 2017. Abstract Eritrea is the small country in Horn of Africa in which nine colleges serving under the Ministry of Education, Eritrea. All the colleges haven't well equipped library facilities. However, no library is self sufficient and they are growing organism. The main objective of the library is to provide access to the relevant information in a short possible time. In the era of information explosion, one side the information becomes very costly and other side, the growing demands of the patrons and the declining levels of finance makes very crucial situation to the libraries. Understanding this universal concept, it is very essential to think of networking of the libraries in Eritrea. A library network is broadly described as a group of libraries coming together with some agreement of understanding to help each other with a view to satisfying the information needs of their clientele. All the network topologies have their own merits and demerits. The topology for the network of college libraries in Eritrea can be either star net or nested net. It is better to implement a star net topology with Eritrea Institute of Technology (EIT) as the central hub. The heavy ultra violet rays, thunder and, power fluctuations, are some of the challenges in Eritrea for the maintenance of networking services. Top Keywords Library network, network topology, Information access, Eritrea Institute of technology, standard bibliographic form. Top |