Monday, May 19th, 2008
Well, dear readers, supporters and friends world-wide…… we did it! GWL’s wee team all completed the Glasgow Women’s 10K in style. We ran, we walked and we finished. Bedecked in our medals and devouring our complimentary bananas, we gathered after the race in our ‘Keep Glasgow Women’s Library Running’ T-shirts as we were mobbed and […]
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Forgive me website for I have sinned. It’s been an age since I last blogged. Too long and now it’s nearly the end of March, and Easter. We have been so so so busy. The Lifelong Learning Team’s work output brings tears to my eyes - the Lifelong Learning Programme is jumping, the Literacy and […]
Friday, November 16th, 2007
I’d love to know what it’s like to work somewhere warm - to feel enveloped in cosiness as soon as you walk through the door from the cold outside air. Our office was just over 10 degrees when I came in this morning and it’s not even winter proper yet. Our electric heaters do their best […]
Thursday, October 25th, 2007
It’s just occurred to me that we moved here and opened the doors to our Parnie Street premises exactly a year ago - where did that time go?
Imagine where we’ll be this time next year. Still here, I imagine, BUT with daily visits to our Mitchell space donning hard hats to check on the progress […]
Monday, October 22nd, 2007
We are in the process of collating letters of support to accompany our application for funding to the Heritage Lottery Fund, which, if successful, will create a dedicated archive room and display facilities to the highest standards, and will also create new and exciting educational, outreach and volunteering opportunities in our new Mitchell Library home […]
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
Hello dear blog readers (I am sure there is a specific word for this…surely not bleaders. Every blog entry seems to flag up a further training need in me).
Thanks for your enduring patience as time has rolled by, or rather sped at a gallop in Libraryland.
Monday, October 30th, 2006
I am writing late in the day at our new home. Since my last blog a whole load of sweat and strategy, tea and solidarity has wrought a whole new Library.
Our first footers have mentioned that we have brought the homeliness and welcomingness of the old GWL with us but this is a big space […]
Saturday, October 7th, 2006
Trying to get this McFadden & Whitehead disco classic adopted as the GWL theme tune but no luck so far! Anyway “final move” day has dawned (a day late right enough but that’s another story). It’s been a long time coming.
Things I’ll miss about 109 Trongate?
The wood burning stove (but not the tons […]
Friday, October 6th, 2006
A gen-u-ine cow bell from Switzerland.
A urine sample bottle (thankfully empty!).
Several tupperware lids and boxes, none of which belong together.
Someone’s toothbrush and pair of pants in a polly bag.
A set of darts and a dart board.
A pair of Elvis sun glasses with side burns attached.
You couldn’t make it up!
Friday, October 6th, 2006
Odd objects found at Glasgow Women’s Library during the final days of packing:
A large, yellow unused inflatable chair
Fourteen pairs of unused brown shoelaces
A fourpack of decorative toothpicks
Six bottles of Lambrini
A keyring with the slogan ‘Israel, home of the felafel’
5 huge Legal and General umbrellas
Four pairs of jeans and a leatherette jacket
A garden gnome
70 terrazzo tiles […]