ISSN 2309-0081 Ogunrewo, Aishatu & Olagoke (2015) 593 I www.irss.academyirmbr.com December 2015 International Review of Social Sciences Vol. 3 Issue.12 R S S Information Resource Sharing Among Selected Academic Libraries in South-West, Nigeria OGUNREWO J. O Joseph Ayo Babalola University, Ikeji-Arakeji, Osun State, Nigeria Email: Jogunrewo@yahoo.com AISHATU N. ZUBAIRU Joseph Ayo Babalola University, Ikeji-Arakeji, Osun State, Nigeria OLAGOKE DOLAPO PETER Joseph Ayo Babalola University, Ikeji-Arakeji, Osun State, Nigeria Abstract Information resource sharing in the library setting means making available to other libraries what they could not provide in terms of human and material resources. Therefore, this paper reviews work on awareness creation in the minds of these selected University libraries (FUTA, UNAD and JABU), all in the South-West, Nigeria. Considering the dwindling government’s budget as well as the cost of foreign exchange in buying library materials, also, that, most libraries have transit from print age to paperless and with internet services all over, recommendations in making the networking easier to access with different solutions have been suggested to tackle the problems that might have arisen such as creating the Union catalogue, the inter library lending services, the preparation of bibliography as well as establishing the bandwidth consortia to cut down the prices of materials through economies of scale. Key Words: Information, Resource Sharing, Academic, Libraries. Nigeria. Introduction Information resource sharing is a phrase used to describe an arrangement where two or more libraries come together to pull their information resources together and make it available to their respective users mainly to supplement their collections. Resources sharing has been given a diverse meaning in this digital era, According to Blakes (2006) resource sharing has been described as comprising of transactions which a library makes its material available to the clientele of another library upon request. Also, Speir (2006) opined that resource sharing means opening the libraries doors to patrons who are given the privilege of reading and borrowing the items for a period of time. Aina (2002) sees resource sharing as a cooperation which generally evolves a group of libraries forming a consortium in order to cooperate among themselves .Walden (1999) viewed resource sharing as term used to describe, organize attempt by library to share material and service cooperatively so as to provide one another with resources that might otherwise not be available to an individual institution. On the other hand, Abubakar (2007) assert that, it is a wide phrase embracing library cooperation, library systems and networking. He further opined that resource sharing is a compilation of term which covers cooperation, coordination, interlibrary loans, cooperative acquisition, cooperative storage and processing. The American library association (ALA) glossary of library and