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Staff, volunteers and student placements share updates from projects and events at Glasgow Women’s Library

Auction of Pleasures goes behind the scenes at St Andrew’s

Published on 16th April, 2010 by Jasmine

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The Auction of Pleasures is starting to feel more of a reality. We’ve had a productive brainstorming session to get some ideas down, made up some postcards to start the […]

Thanks to everyone at the library

Published on 14th April, 2010 by Jilly

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Hi everyone!! Well as most of you will already know I was a student on placement at the library last summer and loved every minute of my placement. I couldn’t have asked […]

An Auction of Pleasures

Published on 7th April, 2010 by Jasmine

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Spring may have finally sprung but it is certainly not a time for resting on your laurels. At the library we are underway with preparing for a fundraising event, due […]

Celebrating 500 Records!

Published on 26th February, 2010 by Laura M

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We now have over 500 books in our library catalogue…

Women’s Work in the Highlands

Published on 25th January, 2010 by Morag

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Library staff and volunteers went on a road trip to Inverness just before Christmas to participate in the Women’s Work in the Highlands conference. This day event, organised in partnership […]

Re-wired and de-humidified

Published on 19th January, 2010 by Helen

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We’re still trying to get back to normal after last week’s flood, but we’re getting there…

Flooded, but not flustered

Published on 11th January, 2010 by Helen

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A very frustrating day for all of us at the Library, after water started streaming into the office from the floors above. Although the library’s main collection was not affected, we had to work quickly to move GWL’s own archive materials, as well as work files and all our computer equipment, out of the office.

Cataloguing the collection

Published on 7th January, 2010 by Laura M

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After the hectic festive season, it is actually quite nice to return to work and get back to the massive task of cataloguing GWL’s library collection! We have thousands of books which need to be catalogued…

16 Days

Published on 25th November, 2009 by Nisha

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In 1991, the Centre for Women’s Global Leadership called for an international campaign entitled 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence (also known as 16 Days of Action For The […]

Masks at AYW

Published on 18th November, 2009 by Kay

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The Aspiring Young Women (AYW) group have been considering times when they have worn a mask to cover up their true emotions. We discussed how situations make us feel and […]