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Retrieved on 28th May, 2015 from www.inasp.info/symposium/2004/symp-2-2Were.ppthttps://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/5483The advent of Information and Communication Technology (ICTs) has been both a curse and blessing to many university libraries in Africa. ICTs have created a heightened demand for efficiency in library service delivery. This has forced university libraries to realign services to the needs and expectations of users needs. ICTs have also opened opportunities for university libraries to cooperate for resource sharing and access to remote information resources. ICTs have created an increased demand for more funding for university libraries, escalation of prices of information resources and reduced patronage of libraries by users. Unfortunately, universities in Africa have not been able to adequately meet the increased demand for more funding for libraries. This forces these libraries to seek collaborations with other institutions locally and internationally for resource sharing and document delivery in order to meet the increased demand by users for effective service delivery. Resource sharing activities such as document delivery and consortial arrangements for acquisition and sharing of e-resources have become popular practices in recent years. This paper shares experiences of university libraries in Kenya in information resource sharing. The paper looks at the resource sharing initiatives as well as opportunities and challenges experienced by these libraries. The paper discusses how these resource sharing initiatives in Kenya help enhance access to e-resources.. Although attempts have been made to encourage university libraries in Kenya to engage in electronic resource sharing, a lot needs to be done. Support is needed from the government and parent institutions to enhance electronic resource sharing and document delivery activities.L’avènement des Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (TIC) a été à la fois une bénédiction et une malédiction pour de nombreuses bibliothèques universitaires en Afrique. Les TIC ont engendré une demande croissante en matière d'efficacité dans la fourniture de services en bibliothèque. Ce qui a obligé les bibliothèques universitaires à réadapter leurs services aux besoins et aux attentes des usagers .Elles ont aussi été une opportunité pour ces dernières de coopérer entre elles afin de partage et d’accéder aux ressources informationnelles à distance. Les TIC ont par la même occasion crée une augmentation de demande de plus financement des bibliothèques universitaires, la montée en flèche des prix des ressources d'information et la baisse de fréquentation des bibliothèques par les usagers. Malheureusement, les universités en Afrique n’ont pas été capables de répondre de façon adéquate à l’augmentation de demande de plus financement de leurs bibliothèques. Ceci a obligé ces dernières à rechercher des collaborations avec d'autres institutions tant au plan national qu’au plan international pour le partage des ressources et la fourniture de documents afin de répondre à la demande croissante des usagers pour une prestation de services de qualité. Les activités de partage de ressources telles que la mise à disposition des documents et les accords des consortia pour l'acquisition et le partage des ressources électroniques sont devenus des pratiques courantes ces dernières années. Cette communication est le partage d’expériences des bibliothèques universitaires kenyanes en matière d’échanges de ressources informationnelles. Cet article se penche aussi bien sur les initiatives d’échange de ressources que sur les opportunités et les défis rencontrés par ces bibliothèques. Il examine la manière dont ces initiatives de partage des ressources au Kenya contribuent à améliorer l'accès aux ressources électroniques. Bien que des tentatives similaires aient été faites pour encourager les bibliothèques universitaires kenyanes à s’engager dans l’échange des ressources électroniques, beaucoup reste à faire. Le soutien gouvernemental et des institutions étatiques est nécessaire pour améliorer le partage des ressources électroniquse et l’activités de fournitures des documents.frAttribution 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Articlehttp://conference.ifla.org/ifla81open accessResource Sharinglibrary CollaborationsElectronic document deliveryUniversity libraries in KenyaLibrary consortia