diff --git a/core-java-modules/core-java-io/pom.xml b/core-java-modules/core-java-io/pom.xml
index d12b10d34e..75e820c95b 100644
--- a/core-java-modules/core-java-io/pom.xml
+++ b/core-java-modules/core-java-io/pom.xml
@@ -170,25 +170,7 @@
             <groupId>net.sf.jmimemagic</groupId>
             <artifactId>jmimemagic</artifactId>
             <version>${jmime-magic.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
-        <!-- sftp file transfer -->
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>com.jcraft</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jsch</artifactId>
-            <version>${jsch.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>com.hierynomus</groupId>
-            <artifactId>sshj</artifactId>
-            <version>${sshj.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
-            <artifactId>commons-vfs2</artifactId>
-            <version>${vfs.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
-        
-        
+        </dependency>                
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>
@@ -278,11 +260,7 @@
         <protonpack.version>1.13</protonpack.version>
         <streamex.version>0.6.5</streamex.version>
         <vavr.version>0.9.0</vavr.version>
-        <opencsv.version>4.1</opencsv.version>
-        <!-- sftp -->
-        <jsch.version>0.1.55</jsch.version>
-        <sshj.version>0.27.0</sshj.version>
-        <vfs.version>2.4</vfs.version>        
+        <opencsv.version>4.1</opencsv.version>        
         <!-- testing -->
         <assertj.version>3.6.1</assertj.version>
         <avaitility.version>1.7.0</avaitility.version>
diff --git a/libraries-io/README.md b/libraries-io/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f8ea2f1be8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libraries-io/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+
+### Relevant Articles: 
+
+
diff --git a/libraries-io/pom.xml b/libraries-io/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5b78ae9442
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libraries-io/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <artifactId>libraries-io</artifactId>
+    <name>libraries-io</name>
+
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>com.baeldung</groupId>
+        <artifactId>parent-modules</artifactId>
+        <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </parent>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <!-- sftp file transfer -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.jcraft</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jsch</artifactId>
+            <version>${jsch.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.hierynomus</groupId>
+            <artifactId>sshj</artifactId>
+            <version>${sshj.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-vfs2</artifactId>
+            <version>${vfs.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+
+    <properties>
+        <!-- sftp -->
+        <jsch.version>0.1.55</jsch.version>
+        <sshj.version>0.27.0</sshj.version>
+        <vfs.version>2.4</vfs.version>
+    </properties>
+</project>
diff --git a/libraries-io/src/main/resources/input.txt b/libraries-io/src/main/resources/input.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a10db923e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libraries-io/src/main/resources/input.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+This is a sample text content
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/core-java-modules/core-java-io/src/test/java/org/baeldung/java/io/remote/SftpFileTransferLiveTest.java b/libraries-io/src/test/java/org/baeldung/java/io/remote/SftpFileTransferLiveTest.java
similarity index 100%
rename from core-java-modules/core-java-io/src/test/java/org/baeldung/java/io/remote/SftpFileTransferLiveTest.java
rename to libraries-io/src/test/java/org/baeldung/java/io/remote/SftpFileTransferLiveTest.java
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 3fd1bcf5fb..e522689890 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -506,6 +506,7 @@
 				<module>libraries-security</module>
 				<module>libraries-server</module>
 				<module>libraries-http</module>
+				<module>libraries-io</module>
 				<module>linkrest</module>
 				<module>logging-modules</module>
 				<module>lombok</module>