Celebrating 500 Records!

After months of busy cataloguing here at GWL, we now have over 500 catalogue records in our library management system.   We plan to celebrate GWL-style: lemon drizzle cake all round! After all, there are still thousands of books to be catalogued so we need to keep our strength up.

Many thanks to Pauline for all her help.

Women’s Work in the Highlands

Library staff and volunteers went on a road trip to Inverness just before Christmas to participate in the Women’s Work in the Highlands conference. This day event, organised in partnership by WEA Scotland, GWL and the Highland Archive Centre, was a chance to explore and celebrate the working lives of Highland women. There were inspirational [...]

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Re-wired and de-humidified

We’re still trying to get back to normal after last week’s flood, but we’re getting there…

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Flooded, but not flustered

A very frustrating day for all of us at the Library, after water started streaming into the office from the floors above. Although the library’s main collection was not affected, we had to work quickly to move GWL’s own archive materials, as well as work files and all our computer equipment, out of the office.

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