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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.

LAST WEEK I was asked to go and buy two publications. This gave me a chance to visit GILLIAN CLEGG, librarian of the advertising trade paper ‘Campaign’. She had won the 1971 Sir Evelyn Wrench Travelling Fellowship and during her month in the us and Canada visited libraries providing business information particularly in publishing, advertising and marketing. Not a surprising choice for a girl who had previously worked for the advertising agencies J Walter Thompson and Lintas! I asked her about the visit.