Earlier this week a group of Library Science students from across America visited us at the University of Strathclyde as part of their study tour of the UK. It was brilliant to meet up with them and to discuss both the differences and similarities between libraries in the UK and USA.
It was also a privilege [...]
Archive for July, 2008
American library students visit Glasgow during UK tour…and I learn more about the transformational value of public libraries!
Posted in Evaluations, Social Value, public libraries, tagged Gulf Cost, Hurricane Katrina, Katrina Research Centre, libraries, Teresa Welsh, University of Mississippi on July 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Three cheers for fiction…
Posted in Books, Social Value, public libraries, tagged ALA, libraries, fiction, reading, paula danziger, enid blyton, judy blume on July 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I was one of those children who preferred reading to playing ‘red rover’ in the playground at lunch time. I used to overhear my gran and my aunts witter on to my mum that I always had my nose stuck in a book when I should be ‘out playing’. But I think my mum [...]
Dolly Parton loves libraries!
Posted in Books, Social Value, public libraries, tagged children's literacy, Dolly Parton, imagination library, public libraries on July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I never thought I’d post about a Dolly Parton concert on this blog, but here we go…
Last Friday night Dolly played two sold out gigs in Glasgow and I was lucky enough to be there on the Friday night. The show, as you’d expect was brilliant and full of all of the lovely clichés [...]
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