The rapidly growing interest shown by the people of Scandinavia in the developing countries of Africa has affected librarians too. Though perhaps the Swedes were rather slower than the Danes to respond to the stimulus of the conference on public libraries in Africa held in Copenhagen in 1961, they are now attempting to recapture the initiative. The 1965 conference, organised jointly by the Swedish National Board of Education, the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, and the Norrköping City Library, was designed as a springboard for further action.