Abstract:
This paper discusses about “Electronic library Management: an Ethiopian Scenario”. Our main concentration
is on University of Gondar, Library and Documentation Services at Thewodros Campus. The service of University of
Gondar (UoG ) Library System dates back to more than half a century during the establishment of the ‘ Gondar Public
Health and Training Center’. The Library was established in 1945 with the ‘Gondar College of Medical Science
(GCMS)’. The study of this paper is, about the inception of the Library, the nature and Objectives of the Library,
different functions like – Collection, Services, Infrastructure, Resource Organization, Management and utilization,
Acquisition, Circulation and about Electronic library Management, Consortium of Ethiopian Academic and Research
Libraries Network (COEARL Network) and its functions. It concludes that to rectify all the said problems, the UoG
Library and Documentation Services (LDS) can reach its optimum level and stand by the ‘Balanced Score Card’
approach which brings integration between the Library’s functions and activities, the strategies and common vision of the
University.
