A Touch of Class: Impressions of Hillhead Library, Glasgow

HILLHEAD is Glasgow's West End, densely populated by mainly middle‐class citizens. The district has been crying out for a library service for fifty years. Now it must be very proud to have acquired such a magnificent building and stock, together costing £620,000. Byres Road, just over half a mile long, is the busy hub of this district. It is a road connecting two of the city's main radial arteries and is part of an inner ring road. It is continuously lined with shops, banks, pubs, cinemas; in fact, it resembles the High Street in a town of 60,000 population.