The aims and Objectives of CUUL are as follows:
- To create a forum in the form of conferences, seminars, workshops, courses and so on, for university libraries where issues such as information networking, resource sharing, standardization and modern trends will be deliberate.
- To initiate, promote and sustain the Consortium.
- To ensure human resource development in library and information science skills at all levels.
- To promote information capturing.
- To promote co-operative information processing, storage, preservation, dissemination, Information and Communication Technology(ICT) development and application.
- To lobby Uganda Government and individual institutions to recognize the status of university library and information professionals.
- To establish a register of code of conduct and professional ethics for university library and information professionals.
- To raise funds for development and sustaining the activities of the Consortium through strategies such as income generating activities.
- To engage in such activities that are geared towards promoting and sustaining the consortium.
- To develop information marketing strategies.
- To develop service evaluation and performance indicators