摘要：Introduction Policies are written agreement meant to be followed to the latter for the purpose of accomplishment of specific tasks. They are standing plans that provide guidelines for decision making. According to Adomi (2008) a policy is a deliberate plan of action intended to guide decision and achieve rational outcome(s). Policies especially those that have to do with libraries need to be written down with adequate and accurate information with all consortiums involved, drawing up the policies that will be beneficial to all. It is in recognition of this that O'Reilly and Robert (1977) as cited by Omagbemi, Odunewu and Osifeso (2005) opined that a system must accurately sense its relevant environment to process information to make policies, co-ordinate and control its sub-units and its members for it to survive. They concluded that policy makers in an ideal situation would select information from those sources perceived to offer the highest quality of information. They further postulated that there is a positive correlation between the quality of information needed by policy makers and policy effective performance. According to Omagbemi, Odunewu and Osifeso (2005) policy and decision making involve accurate, effective, and timely consideration of facts before a policy is arrived at. They further stated that a policy arrived at with limited, jaundiced information is more likely of failure and crisis which may bring the society for which it is made to serious disadvantages. In their own view, Oyeniyi and Olaifa, (2013) stated that a government policy is an aggregation of a people's collective hopes, wishes and aspiration. To this extent, the quality of government is measured by the number of policies successfully implemented.
