Jana

Going home – with a bag full of extraordinary memories

By Jana | Published 25th August, 2011

Time flew by as always when you are feeling that you are doing something useful with it. Six weeks ago I entered the library the first time and but today it is my last day and I am going to go back to Berlin soon. I already know that I will miss this place that [...]

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A worthwhile experience

By Jana | Published 3rd August, 2011

How do people work in other countries? What exactly is a women’s library about? These two leading questions accompanied me when I came to Glasgow Women’s library about two weeks ago. All in all, I’ve six weeks to find out before I’ll return to Berlin, Germany where I am from. I’ll try to support the [...]

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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 [...]