Already they have been struggling hard to augment their collections and improve their services within their shoe-string budgets.
To add to their financial woes is the intellectual sterility prevalent in these countries.
They rarely produce their own scientific literature.
They depend almost entirely on the import of scientific literature, from basic textbooks to core journals for any research and instructional activity.
The introduction of IT has aggravated this situation.
Libraries in these countries have a feeling that their counterparts in the developed economies have overtaken them by centuries.
The digital divide has widened and is still widening in spite of all pious platitudes of international agencies and organizations.