Some Primary 6s and 7s visited this important Glasgow landmark to learn about the historic building and the everyday work that goes on there. The main focus for our visit was to learn about the role the library has as a social enterprise.

What we learned:

• the library team provides advice to people starting new businesses, including what qualifications they need to have a new job or start a certain business
• they can carry out marketing for people to find out who would buy their product
• they help to expand businesses that already exist
• the library can give a patent to people’s ideas or inventions that allow them to belong to the person and no one can steal their idea
• there are 5 floors which are open to the public and 5 more which are only for staff
• there are over 10 million items kept in the library
• they use a decimal reference system to store the items in order
• the building is made up of three parts: one from the 1910s, another from the 1960s and another from the 1980s

• we are able to help members of the public with skills that we have, for example one of us was able to help a man who couldn’t speak English use a computer because we spoke their language too
• there is a rumour that the building is haunted…

So today, we went on a trip to Sunny Govan Radio Station. We met Heather, the person in charge and also the founder of the station. Here we were working on the live radio program with Steg.

Things we enjoyed:

• Introducing songs and choosing them
• Doing interviews live
• Using the mixing desk
• Seeing Steg
• Recording a message for the unity project
• Singing to a local man called Archie

What we learnt:

• Being safe on the journey
• Using the mixing desk again
• Being responsible
• Using our voices on air
• The story of Sunny Govan- Heather started by only walking down a street and asking the community if they wanted a radio station and the community named it Sunny Govan.
• The three main jobs of Sunny Govan- Manager, producer and DJ
• The purpose of Sunny Govan- to make people happy in our community but still needing to make money to run the organisation.

So here we were in front of the new Mary Barbour statue. Mary was a political activist, in the early 20th century. We were set a challenge by Brian, a local historian, to count how many people were part of the statue. We all got it wrong a few times but eventually we discovered 17.