Services at Glasgow’s Mitchell Library

We visit the Mitchell Library in Glasgow to learn about some of the services on offer.

Transcript

00:00Welcome to the Mitchell Library. This was the result of a legacy from Stephen Mitchell,

00:05a city merchant. It allowed us to have this beautiful building in front of us.

00:09This is actually the third home of the Mitchell Library and we moved here in 1911.

00:13In the Mitchell we have over two million items available for people to borrow.

00:16The majority of them are in our clothes stacks. A selection of them are out on floors like this

00:21one. We have material that covers loads and loads of topics. Last year we had over 270,000

00:29visitors to the Mitchell Library and there's a huge range of people that use the service from

00:35the most vulnerable people in society to academic researchers to people running their business.

00:41We have over two million items in our collection and we add to them regularly on a range of topics

00:48and not just books. We are in the BIPC, as we call it, which is the Business and Intellectual

00:54Property Centre. This is a unique resource in Glasgow and in Scotland. It's the only one in Scotland.

00:58It's part of a wider network that's led by the British Library in London and through that we

01:04have a series of workshops. We work in partnership with experts. We'll help you establish your business.

01:10If you were, for example, looking to be a child minder and you didn't know what you needed,

01:14what qualifications, we have resources here that you can look at and it'll tell you what legally you

01:19need, what training they might recommend and ideas about how to market your business. If you want to

01:24just come in and maybe meet a client, you can come in and meet your client in the space or you might

01:30want to work because you're sick of being in the office, you're sick of being at home when you're

01:33working from home and we have spaces there that people can just co-work together. Access to the

01:39business resources and the space is all free. It's just waiting here for people to come along and use it.