Author: Helen

One half of the Library’s admin team and the Library’s resident geek – Helen looks after the Library’s IT needs as well as more general admin tasks.

Strange requests made to archives

Published on 4th August, 2009 by Helen

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‘Photograph of Jesus’ a short animated film that takes the strange enquiries made to an image archive and creates a surreal and funny stopmotion collage that travels through the archive’s stacks. Mostly, we don’t get enquiries that are this strange, but somehow it seemed to ring a bell…

Calling all our Tweeps!

Published on 21st July, 2009 by Helen

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You can help the Library become this year’s Glasgow ‘Twestival’ Local Charity and help us raise funds for our move to the Mitchell Library. Vote now to nominate Glasgow Women’s Library for the Glasgow Twestival in September!

Glasgow Twestival

Published on 21st July, 2009 by Helen

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You can help the Library become this year’s Glasgow ‘Twestival’ Local Charity and help us raise funds for our move to the Mitchell Library. Vote now to nominate GWL for the Glasgow Twestival in September!

Who are you?

Published on 2nd July, 2009 by Helen

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Part of running the Library’s website involves keeping track of who visits the website and what they look at while they’re here. Over the last year, I’ve started using Google […]

Knitting for Peace

Published on 18th May, 2009 by Helen

This post was published 16 years ago. You can explore more recent posts through the categories and tags.

Just found out about this rather remarkable ‘knitting action’, organised by the American organisation CODEPINK. For Mother’s Day (the American one, 10th May), they went to the White House with […]

Ada Lovelace Day

Published on 25th March, 2009 by Helen

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Yesterday (24th March) was Ada Lovelace Day, an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology.

1000 books you should read?

Published on 29th January, 2009 by Helen

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Last week, the Guardian published ‘1000 novels everyone must read’, and after I’d worked out how few of them I’d read, I started to work out how many of their choices were written by women…

Closed for Christmas and New Year

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The Library will be closed from 20th December to 4th January.

More Blog Changes…

Published on 16th December, 2008 by Helen

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A few more changes have been made to the blog – hopefully they make sense. I’ve just been tidying it up a little, and making sure the blog and the Library’s main website tie together better. And we’ve been venturing out into the wild web, so join us on Facebook, or Twitter, or Delicious…