OVERSEAS STUDENTS AS A RESOURCE

international librarianship. Students on the M.A. course were invited to contribute to the teaching, partly to provide them with practical teaching experience, since most of them were planning to teach in their own countries on their return home, and partly because they could convey the ’feel ’ of the situation in their own country in a way that the British teaching staff could not. This contribution was later broadened to include both students on the ordinary master’s course and those on the two-year course. The first term of the programme is devoted to the general problems of international and comparative archive, library and information studies, the second to specialized topics presented by the overseas students. The success of these presentations naturally depends on adequate preparation, and those wit