The relevance and viability of cooperative approach by forming arnnetwork of existing information service units in the country tornaddress commonly faced shortcomings in agricultural informationrnprovision was assessed and discussed. A review of literature onrnvarious aspects of information ne tworking was made mainly to drawrnup a general framework and basic pri nciples essential to asse ssrnviability, to determine possible and viable areas of cooperationrnand to establish the particular type of net work required. Arnpreliminary survey on problems, resource capability and attitude tornnetworking on the existing information service units in Ethi opiarnusing questionnaire supported by selected interview was conducted.rnThe results revealed shortages in information sources, skilledrnpersonnel, and equipment and facility; and cumbersomernorganizational structures are widespread. standardization andrnbibliographic control tools are also a bsent. Local publications arernneglected areas. Financial resource limitations are major problems.rnThe information services provided are limited to reading andrnlending services by large. All these are constraints in thernimprovements . of the services immedi tely. staff will i ngness tornappr oach , the" existing problems cooperatively was high.rnAlso surveyed with a different questionnaire were agricult uralrninformation users of the surveyed information service units so asrnto assess their reaction to and opinions about the available servi ces which t he ne t wor k could t ake into cons i de r ation as i t srnultimate goal. Al t hough at present books are t he most used,rnjournals and loca l pUblica t ions are rep o r ted t o be in great demand.rnLiter ature s e a r ch, phot ocopying, doc ument delivery are a lsornrequi red. The ma jority are dissati s f i ed with their in forma t ionrnservi ce units beca us e their information ne eds are not met. However,rnmany seem to appreciate a cooper ative approach to the ser vicesrnalthough at present many are less frequent us ers of other similarrninformation units in the country.rnTaking into consideration what is affordable by the existing unitsrnon the one hand and the need to addr ess t he pressing problems onrnthe other, feasi ble areas for a network were identified ,namely,rnestablishing union c atalogues of holdings and list of localrnpublications, limited interl ibr ary loan, t raining andrnstandardization with focus on laying the g r ound for further widerrncooperation leading towar ds meeting the expressed as well asrngenerally r equired needs of users and to assist the servicesrnachieve better standards of service and r esource base.rnRecommendations are made to initiate the network and make itrnoperational.