diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d50656b..72987c1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1 +1,12 @@
-# ibm-logging
\ No newline at end of file
+Provides IBM specific error logging functionality.
+
+## To Build
+```
+To build this package, do the following steps:
+
+    1. ./bootstrap.sh
+    2. ./configure ${CONFIGURE_FLAGS}
+    3. make
+
+To clean the repository run `./bootstrap.sh clean`.
+```