Up to now there does not seem to have been any report on the extent to which African studies are pursued in our library schools, and what follows is a brief attempt to describe the position. The schools mentioned were contacted by letter and asked to give a summary of the position. The schools, with the name of the correspondent, were: the School of Librarianship, Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology, Aberdeen (Mr. J. M. Orr); the College of Librarianship, Wales, at Aberystwyth (Mr. M. Wise); the Department of Library and Information Studies, Queen's University Belfast (Mr. W. J. Martin); the,Department of Librarianship, City of Birmingham Polytechnic (Mr. A. F. Johnson); the Department of Library and Information Studies, Liverpool Polytechnic (Mr. W. H. Snape); the School of Librarianship, Leeds Polytechnic (Mr. D. E. Davinson); the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, University College London (Mr. J. H. Mcllwaine); the School of Librarianship, Polytechnic of North London; the Department of Library and Information Studies, Loughborough University (Mr. R. Cave); the Department of Library and Information Studies, Manchester Polytechnic (Mr. J. L. Ingham); the Department of Librarianship, Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic (Mr. W. Caldwell); the Postgraduate School of Librarianship and Information Studies, University of Sheffield (Professor M. F. Lynch); and the Department of Librarianship, University of Strathclyde (Professor W. E. Tyler).