Although the Library started as a wholly voluntary organisation, it now has a number of full and part-time staff.
Adele Patrick is a founder and current Lifelong Learning co-ordinator of Glasgow Women's Library. She has been involved in women's and equality projects in Glasgow since the 1980's. She is committed personally and professionally to the concept of learning throughout life and achieved her own doctorate in 2004.
More information about Lifelong Learning at Glasgow Women's Library.
Sue John joined Glasgow Women's Library as a volunteer in 1993 having graduated (as a mature student) from Glasgow School of Art with a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art Printmaking. She became a paid worker in 2000, job sharing the post of Development Worker on the LIPS Project, and since 2005 has been in post as the full-time Strategic Development Manager. Sue's key responsibilities at GWL include managing the forthcoming relocation to the Mitchell Library and line management of project workers.
Kay joined the Library in January 2007 and has been responsible for re-launching the ALN project. Kay is a graduate in Retail Management from Glasgow Caledonian University. Having worked frantically as a manager in retail for a few years, Kay had an early career change when she decided to embark on a journey into the field of Adult Learning. She has since developed a passion for Adult Literacy and Numeracy tutoring and awareness raising and is committed to empowering women with the basic skills needed for them to succeed in life. Kay worked for a successful community literacies project; Buddies for Learning Renfrewshire, before joining the Women's Library.
More information about the Library's Adult Literacy and Numeracy Project, learning opportunities and becoming a tutor at GWL.
Wendy joined Glasgow Women's Library in October 2005 as our new librarian. She is a graduate of Strathclyde University, where she studied English literature as an undergraduate, and library studies as a postgraduate. One of the main aspects of her post will be looking into sourcing a new library management system, which will allow the library to get its amazing collection of resources classified and catalogued. She will also be looking at ways to develop the library's collection and at how access to resources can be increased for library users.
Laura joined the Library in August 2007 as the Lifelong Learning Assistant. She is responsible for assisting the Lifelong Learning Coordinator in developing the learning programme and organising events. Laura has worked in the voluntary sector since 1998, mostly with learning organisations so has a keen interest in promoting learning for all. Her last post was with a charity that runs comedy workshops for people with ill health, where she had a key role managing their pilot project, which culminated with a 2 hour comedy show - so is keen to bring even more laughter to the Library.
Alison came to GWL in September 2003 to teach a ten week T'ai Chi class and somehow never left! Subsequently she worked as a volunteer and then hourly paid admin worker at GWL until September 2005 when she started to job-share with Helen in the post of Admin and Finance Worker. One of her main responsibilities is developing, managing and maintaining the Scottish Government-funded Women in Scotland database.
The other half of the Library's admin team and the Library's resident geek.
Volunteers are very important to the Library and we are keen to encourage women who wish to support the Library in this way to contact us. Find out more about our volunteering programme here.
Our Board of Directors furthers the work of Glasgow Women's Library by playing an active part in strategy development and the meeting of the organisation's mission and aims. More information about the Board is available here
All the Library staff can be contacted via email or at the Library.