Lessons from a Wee Visit to a Scottish Library

The University of Glasgow, photo taken by Chris Eaker

Earlier this week, Joanna wrote about her experience at a small library in Florence, Italy. Last week, my wife and I travelled to Scotland. Our home base was Glasgow, but we made day trips to other places, such as the Isle of Skye, Oban, Inverness, and Edinburgh. Scotland is a beautiful country in both its landscape and the friendliness of its people. And Glasgow is a working city, not a tourist city like Edinburgh, so it’s unpretentious and fun. For the most part, it was a vacation, but it also served to strengthen my library and information science education.