University library buildings: a view from Greece

Abstract

AFTER a university education in Greece, the English university scene comes as something of a surprise. English universities are small by Greek standards; Manchester, the biggest provincial university, has 12,000 students, while Oxford and Cambridge have 11,000 each. Athens, on the other hand, has 25,000 students, and the University of Salonika (at which I am a lecturer) has 30,000. In England almost a fifth of the students are postgraduates, in Greece they are almost all undergraduates, though the courses generally are of five years' duration, and not three. University libraries of the kind known in England do not exist. As elsewhere in Europe there is a central closed access library, but each professor (university teacher) has his own personal collection for which funds are allocated by the university.

Citation

PANAGIOTOU, E. (1973), "University library buildings: a view from Greece", New Library World, Vol. 74 No. 4, pp. 81-82. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb038126