A gen-u-ine cow bell from Switzerland. A urine sample bottle (thankfully empty!). Several tupperware lids and boxes, none of which belong together. Someone’s toothbrush and pair of pants in a […]
Category: Blog
Staff, volunteers and student placements share updates from projects and events at Glasgow Women’s Library
Goodbye to a few of my favourite things
Odd objects found at Glasgow Women’s Library during the final days of packing: A large, yellow unused inflatable chair Fourteen pairs of unused brown shoelaces A fourpack of decorative toothpicks […]
Echo and the Removal Men
Nearly there. Nearly there. Nearly there. Our daily chant for the last month. We are now really really nearly there. Bit of a panic yesterday though on calling the removal […]
412 from 109
Hello, Even my blogs have an echo now at 109. 412 boxes have been dispached and there is one final uplift scheduled for Friday. Next Monday the Library will start […]
The History Girls
The Library’s growth is both strategic and yet still reassuringly organic. Intuition, tapping into (and on spectacular occasions appearing to anticipate and influence) the zeitgeist, working with the knowledge that […]
Walls have ears…
‘…that’s why we don’t eat their pies’ was the rather lame ‘joke’ on the shop floor when one of my big brothers worked at Walls sausage and pie factory many […]
A Hostage!
 Dear Women of the Library, I, Great Xerox of Trongate have visitied your library in your absence and I have taken a prisoner! She was there all on her […]
Bhajis from the bothy
Our next door neighbours at 109 have been Klass Leather shop and Mitchells Amusement Arcade. Mitchells are located on the ground floor of the magnificent, crumbling, neoclassical Panopticon Theatre. Stan […]
Tides and Time
Hello again to the patient readers of the Liblog. The metaphorical tides of journals and shelves, files and books have been swept up and reconstituted into the lovingly labelled, serried […]
Book Boxes
Book Boxes; the clue is in the name. Boxes that are made for packing books. Not boxes that are made to pack archive files. And you can tell this is […]