Carrie, third year Community Learning and Development student from Strathclyde University, has been on a full-time placement with the national lifelong learning project since September. Here she talks about her […]
Category: Placements and Volunteers Blog
Alice Munro – Dear Life (2012)
A Nobel Prize winner and a leading proponent of the short story format, Alice Munro requires little introduction. Featuring fourteen stories, Dear Life is the most recent short story collection […]
Nelson Mandela – Apartheid, Women and Glasgow
Despite great sadness at the death of Nelson Mandela on 5th December 2013 it has, of course, invited fresh dialogue about his life and achievements, and the very nature of […]
Book Week Scotland 2013 (25th November – 1st December) at Glasgow Women’s Library
Glasgow Women’s Library offered a full, fun schedule of events for Book Week Scotland 2013. I had a great time at several of the sessions on offer, where I got […]
Dangerous Women Conference (The Jimmy Reid Foundation)
On Saturday 2nd November, The Jimmy Reid Foundation offered a free, three-hour conference entitled ‘Dangerous Women: A conference on the women who campaigned against the First World War and for […]
Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival (SMHAFF) – ‘Moving Minds’ at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow.
On 17th October, I paid a brief visit to the fifth annual ‘Moving Minds’ event at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. Moving Minds forms part of the annual Scottish Mental […]
Firebrand Women: The Suffragettes
As a female voter in the UK, I’ve always been immensely grateful to the many women who campaigned for my right to the franchise before such a thing was […]
The Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival
Last night the Edinburgh Filmhouse was the venue for the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival (SMHAFF) International Film Award Ceremony for 2013. The SMHAFF started off in 2007 […]
‘The Collected Stories’, Lorrie Moore (2008)
The Collected Stories is a compilation of short stories from some of Lorrie Moore’s previous publications (Birds of America (1998), Like Life (1990), Anagrams (1986) and Self Help […]
Open Doors Day Hooray
Every year Glasgow, and many other cities across the country,have a doors open day event and this year the library was able to host it’s event at it’s new home […]