MELCom International: Middle East Libraries Committee, The European Association of Middle East Librarians.

The article discusses the professional organization Middle East Libraries Committee or MELCom in Great Britain. It states that the organization started in the second half of the 1960s in Great Britain following the expansion of Middle Eastern studies in the country. A report recommended the creation of an inter-university library committees to cover the needs of both scholars and students specializing in Middle Eastern studies.