The Afro‐Asian Library Position Available to Purchase

Public relations departments have done their job and people coming to Africa and Asia no longer expect to find us living in mud huts, picking our way to work between pythons and puff‐adders, or speaking in words of one syllable to our local library staff. Instead, our large white concrete buildings, our well‐educated and multilingual local staffs—many of them now holding senior positions—our enquiry desks, batteries of microfilms, punched cards, and other gadgetry, and the comfort in which many of us live, are taken for granted by the increasing number of professional visitors who find their way to us from the Western world.