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 work in the Glasgow Women’s library as a librarian. I am conversant with the work in a library, especially in a small, specialized library because I used to work in one back in Berlin. And I am very much into books and I love it to work together as a team with all kinds of people.
When I arrived in the middle of July the team of the women’s library gave me a very warm welcome. I realized quickly that I’ve found what I was looking for: a place to work and to gain new experiences in library science as well as socials skills in a great and friendly atmosphere. I am very happy to be part of it for at least six weeks!
I hope that I will be able to give a hand to improve and to extend the information resources in the library during my short stay in Glasgow because I believe in Francis Bacon’s principle “knowledge is power”. I am curious about the next three and a half weeks!
