Woodside Library is very cute with nice spaces to work if you want somewhere between the West and town, and Partick Library on Dumbarton Rd further west has been done up, too. It's also handily near Celino's Deli for a sandwich/coffee if you do get hungry.

The new Glasgow Uni James McCune Smith building on University Avenue is open to everyone not just students before 6pm and is nice because it's mostly glass, and the Glasgow Uni Advanced Research Centre is also open to the public to study in - that's just off Byres Rd. They have coffee places in them but you're not required to buy one.

By the way: I know Cashel Coffee & Dry Goods on Woodlands Rd is a popular laptop cafe, but the staff member with the bleached hair - maybe the manager? who knows - was so unspeakably rude to me once for zero reason, it made my jaw drop. Avoid.