Thread by @mgshanks

First library down on today’s big run - Whiteinch Library, reopened recently after a fantastic community campaign. Next up, Knightswood!

Library number 2 - Knightswood! Fortunately with a shady spot for a breather - it’s a lot hotter out here than I imagined! Next stop, Anniesland I think?

Library number 3 - Anniesland! Now to find some water then along the canal to Maryhill.

Library number 4 - Maryhill. Now along Maryhill Road in search of a different kind of library!

Library number 5 - slightly different one this time, it’s the Glasgow Tool Library @GLAtoollibrary! (also the only library so far open to say hello to anyone!) 🪜🔨🪛

Library number 6 - Woodside, although it looks like somewhere in the Caribbean today! Next stop, Hillhead!

Library number 7 - Hillhead! Now up the big hill to where I’ve spent too many sleepless nights…

Library number 8 - many a 3am session in here finishing off an essay… a habit I’ve sadly never got out of. It’s the @uofglibrary University of Glasgow Library, home to more than two million volumes!

Library number 9 - the National Library of Scotland at the Kelvin Hall - the Moving Image Library but also a full branch for anything digital from the NLS archive.

10th and final library on today’s west end library run - Partick! Complete with a rather excellent stone @GlasgowCoA

Tried to think of a library / ice cream pun but I couldn’t think of any, which is novel for me.

Onto the southside library trail today - connecting Whiteinch Library to Govan via the Clyde Tunnel and Elder Park

And library 11 - Elderpark Library in Govan. Off to Cardonald now so may be a wee while…

Library 12 - Cardonald! Now away along Paisley Road West for a few miles to get Ibrox. Sorry Pollok it’ll have to be another day!

Last one for today, Ibrox is number 13 on this library running trail of Glasgow!

Back on the library running trail of Glasgow - number 14 - it’s Pollokshields, not to be confused with Pollokshaws which is the one I’m away to run to next!

Library 15 - Pollokshaws! Now across to the Couper Institute. Bigger gaps between these southside ones!

Library 16 - Couper Institute Library, Cathcart, added to the next door Couper Institute in 1923. Langside next!

Library 17 - Langside! Opened in 1915 it is the last of the Carnegie Libraries to be built in Glasgow. Can’t remember where I’m off to next so who knows where I’ll end up.

Library 18 - it’s another slightly different one but still a library, the Glasgow Zine Library @GlasgowZineLib!

Library 18 - Govanhill. Built 1906, the ninth of eventually fifteen Carnegie libraries in the city. Think that’s me done for today’s southside circuit, now back to Pollokshields to complete the loop (Gorbals, sorry, you’ll be next time) 📚

That was a nice wee 10k loop actually!

Library 19 - and it’s a big one, the Mitchell Library, one of Europe’s largest public libraries. And also Library 20 which might be cheating but Anderston Library is a separate library, housed in the Mitchell since the M8 tore through Anderston in the 1960s.

Library 21 - the @GSofA Glasgow School of Art Library, diagonally from the Mackintosh Building still under wraps

Library 22, well sort of - outside of the Royal Conservatoire which contains the Whittaker Library - named after the first principal of the SNAoM.

Library 22 - the Sir Alex Ferguson Library at Glasgow Caledonian University @CaledonianNews renamed in 2019.

Library 23 - University of Strathclyde, the university library and the Andersonian Library, and yes that’s the new sports building opposite the library but Strathclyde doesn’t seem to like putting obvious signs on their buildings.

Library 24 - the Gallery of Modern Art Library

Library 25 - the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow - their library dates back to 1817, and in Nelson Mandela Place since 1857.

Library 26 - the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow Library, moved to St Vincent St in 1862 but founded in 1698 (here you go @thurible!)