Staff, volunteers and student placements share updates from projects and events at Glasgow Women’s Library
Yesterday (24th March) was Ada Lovelace Day, an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology.
GWL visits Govan Girls: Laura and Adele take GWL learning on the road.
What with one thing and another, I only made it to one event at Aye Write this year, but did I pick a good one or what? Myself, Kay and Sue headed along to the Jackie Kay and Val McDermid reading last Sunday night. It was totally packed out, which made for a great atmosphere.
We have just returned from City Chambers where we attended the long-awaited ceremony to award the Freedom of the City to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the brave and great Burmese pro-democracy campaigner and Nobel Peace Prize winner under house arrest by the Burmese military regime.
Hello! I’m Loraine and I’m the new volunteer at the Library. I’m the New Neighbourhood Research Assistant and for the next wee while I’ll be involved in working on a […]
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…
First of all, Happy New Year to everyone reading this. 2009 has already been a busy one in the world of Lifelong Learning at GWL. First course starting at the end […]
Isn’t it great that as the Lifelong Learning Assistant I am also learning all the time. Helen recently revamped the GWL website and it is looking fabulous!! Following the revamp […]
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…
I was looking through Glasgow Gumtree for ads that I recently placed on forthcoming events and I saw a site that I thought people might find of interest. It’s a […]
