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Last Day of 2-week Cataloguing Placement

By Antoinette | Published 15th November, 2009

Friday last was the final day of my 2-week placement at GWL, cataloguing the ENACT for Women Collection. What a wonderful environment with a wonderful team and such a rich experience! I couldn’t have been placed in a better setting. Time seemed too short but I nevertheless was able to describe a series down to item [...]

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Back to Cataloguing

By Antoinette | Published 9th November, 2009

Hi. After a brief illness, I’m back on my feet, resuming cataloguing of the Education, Networking, Action, Culture and Training (ENACT) Collection. ENACT for Women was a volunteer-led, grass roots women’s organization based in Edinburgh which was constituted in 1999 to “strengthen links between women and women’s organisations experiencing exclusion and isolation”. Originally constituted as [...]

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Work begins on GWL’s archive catalogue!

By Antoinette | Published 4th November, 2009

Hello, hello. I’m Antoinette from tiny, sunny Nassau, Bahamas and I’m on an exciting 2-week placement at Glasgow Women’s Library – as a part of University of Glasgow’s MSc Information Managment and Preservation (IMP) course – – Description, Cataloguing and Navigation. This is exciting Day 3! Under the great supervision of Hannah L, I’m immersed [...]

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Music in the archive

Last week, the Library had a visit from Debi Withers, one of the women behind the Women’s Liberation Music Archive. Glasgow Women’s Library were delighted to welcome Debi as she consulted material from our archive.
Coatbridge intergenerational project

Our women’s history researchers from Coatbridge, the Lanarkshire Inquisitors, went back to school for 6 weeks and have been updating their technology skills, with a bit of help from 4th year students of the XL group at St Andrew’s High school in Coatbridge.
Dumbarton Women’s History Detectives

Since November last year a new group of GWL women learners have been meeting at Dumbarton library to do some detective work on women in Dumbarton’s history. This was an introductory course for beginners and none of the women had done historical research work before, but despite this they dived in with great enthusiasm and [...]