The work looks into the need and importance of resource-sharing services in the consortial arrangement among fifteen university libraries in Sri Lanka, which are dependent on the UGCs financial allocation. The research explores how far these libraries are subject to the danger of depletion of their resources, finds ways in which the libraries share the resources, scrutinizes what makes them being unable to build a consortium for resource-sharing, and finally it proposes a diagrammatic model for resource-sharing with the aid of a consortium. The paper explore the need of, barriers to and...