Tag: archive
New acquisitions
Well it’s been a busy last few months – preparing for museums accreditation, training volunteers, and organizing exhibitions and talks. We’ve also had a few new acquisitions; these include a couple of oral history collections – the Bolton Women’s Liberation Group Oral History Project archives and copies of seminars recorded throughout the UK as part [...]
Work begins on GWL’s archive catalogue!
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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Grand tidy-up
A big thank you to all who helped out with the grand Autumn tidy-up last week! I am amazed at how much we managed to do and how many random items of electrical equipment we unearthed. There is now space in which to begin listing and cataloguing the archives and library material. Hurrah!
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Doors Open Day, 19 September 2009
Doors Open Day on Saturday was great fun. Over the course of the morning we had about ninety visitors, old and young, men and women. I had prepared a small exhibition of some of the items from our collections, including an umbrella stand that had been painted by Suffragettes whilst they were imprisoned, anti-Suffragette postcards [...]
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