By JAMES BROWN Glasgow News 1 Public meeting attendees had a chance to help shape the next chapter of Mary Wood Weldon ...

An exhibition of one of the world’s rarest books has opened to the public in Glasgow. First published between 1827 and 1838, ...

The Birds of America, by John James Audubon, will be shown to the public during the Glasgow Blythswood Festival.

When the Public Libraries Act of 1863 came into force, various groups campaigned to convince Glasgow to adopt it.

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ONE of Glasgow’s ‘Carnegie’ libraries is to be used as a community and events space after being sold for £175,000. The former Parkhead Library is being disposed to Hector House – a company that owns ...

Firemen saved the archives but could not save the library. The Glasgow School of Art’s “Mack Library,” once located on the first floor of the Rennie Mackintosh–designed building, was destroyed by fire ...

Sleek black boxes covered in banks of knobs, dials and switches like the control panels of a spaceship: to most of us, synthesisers look terrifyingly complicated. That’s why they’ve been the preserve ...

Glasgow’s historic Govanhill Library needs a new roof at a cost of £266,000 – but there is no public money currently available to carry out the job. A survey undertaken after a leak was found revealed ...