Page 1 Page 1 Introduction The term library is taken to an equate the breathing and inspiration of the information. The aim of the library is for educational purpose and creating social, political, economic and cultural awareness (Bremer and Suzonne, 2004). The library exists in every country of the world, including the least developed countries. Many developing countries are trying to improve their library services to face the world changes at the end of this century (Krolak, 2005). Therefore, the least developed University libraries have a long tradition of networking within countries and across national boundaries (Kabamba, 2008). However, there are a variety of other uses of libraries, fulfilling diferent purposes and serving diferent clients (Asheim, 2012) and (Conroy, 2008). Specially, today when information has become vital to life in the world these University libraries faced with many challenges. The libraries in any country and at any stages of the development are capable of improvement and all will have both strengths and weaknesses. Therefore, it was decided to produce a set of guidelines and standards that could be relevant to any library at some point in its development (Webb, 2010). We recognize that the problem of meeting standards when reliable population figures are not available. We recommend that the more detailed guidelines produced by specialist of IFLA will be used. Where libraries cannot meet all the standards and recommendations immediately, it is hoped that they will provide a target at which to aim. This study is aimed primarily librarians to be fighting for improved library development and services (IFLA, 2010). University Libraries in Ethiopia In University, library and information service is a key actor in providing unhindered access to essential resources for education, users and even for social, cultural advance (Agrawal, 2005). In higher institutions, the library has a great role, particularly for references, the current version of the books, education and researches. Unfortunately, the poor state of academic libraries was implicated as a major cause. Taking a developing country as a case study, the UNESCO (2004) national surveys showed that the library development in Africa as being very weak, with numerous problems regarding financial constraints, lack of American Research Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology (ARJCSIT) Volume 2, 2017, 7 pages Research Article Open Access Factors Hindering Development of Library and Information Services in Ethiopian Universities Workineh Tesema *1 Yehuwalashet Bekele 2 1 Jimma University, Ethiopia 2 Medawolabu University, Ethiopia workineh.tesema@ju.edu.et www.arjonline.org Abstract: In Ethiopia University library was providing a traditional way of services. The traditional library service was backward on efective information disseminations as well as it brings impact on the development of information centers. The present study focuses on factors hindering the development of library and information centers in Ethiopia. The questionnaire, observation and interview are used to investigate the underlying influences that afect library. The key problems addressed were lack of staf training and shortage of necessary facilities. As the result argued that the library has lack of staf training and shortage of ICT facilities by 88.6% and 97.2% respectively. For University library, the window of network (Internet) should be recommended to upgrade their services to allocate updated and current reference services and Internet services. Keywords: Library Development, University Library, Library Services, Information Services, Ethiopian Library.