Orkney Library & Archive
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Books and Archives since 1683. Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
We have an announcement. Tomorrow is Dounby Show Day which is a local public holiday in #Orkney. Orkney Library & Archive will be CLOSED ALL DAY so the staff can dress in their finest outfits and stroll around the park looking at all sorts of bullocks. 🐂 See you on Friday.
This year's Edinburgh International Book Festival kicks off shortly and for the first time ever Orkney Library & Archive is delighted to be holding several FREE events where you can come along to the library and watch LIVE STREAMS of the events as they happen! 🎉
Good to be back from our important research trip exploring the balls of other libraries.
From the deserts of Sudan to the gardens of Japan. From Milan to Yucatan, or the wilds of Borneo to the vineyards of Bordeaux. Hit me with your library card. Hit me. Hit me.
Look who came wandering on to #BookyMcBookface in Quoyloo this morning. 🐈 At this point it feels like we're running a Mobile Library service for cats. 🐾
It's a grey, overcast day in #Orkney but we've just been sent a lovely sunny holiday photo of the bright white balls in Bexhill-on-sea! ❤️⚪⚪⚪
Good afternoon to everybody but ESPECIALLY to Cathy who came to visit recently all the way from Maine in the U.S. and brought us this beautiful handcrafted tote bag from L.L. Bean! Embroidered especially for #BookyMcBookface to carry on his travels! ❤️ #BoatAndTote #LoveLibraries
THERE IS A CAT IN THE CAR PARK 🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨 THERE IS A CAT IN THE CAR PARK 🐈
Happy #SaturdayMorning everyone. This week we would like to introduce our lovely *checks notes* KIDNEY VETCH. ❤️ Also known as woundwort, this is one of the flowers planted in our Coastal Habitat raised bed, as part of our Interactive Flora Trail. 🌼🏵 orkneylibrary.org.uk/interactive-...
For the last couple of weeks our #LEGO display cases have scored some record-breaking results with our superbly sporty #OrkneyLibraryLego SUMMER OF SPORTS theme! ⚽️🎾🚴♂️ All made by library users using our #Lego collection. ❤️ Our next theme is ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS! 🗿🕳🪨
The queue for the Mobile Library yesterday 🐈⬛️🐈
We may have just found the greatest pop-up book of all time
Our friends at BorrowBox are hosting an exclusive online event with author David Baldacci on the 21st of July - and you are all invited! The award-winning author will be discussing his many best-selling thriller novels, followed by a live Q&A that the online audience are invited to join in with. 👇
This is your occasional reminder that Agatha Christie wasn't just the bestselling crime writer of all time but also she had a surfboard called Fred
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We would like to interrupt your #SaturdayMorning doomscrolling to show you our beautiful Viper's Bugloss ❤️ Planted last year as part of our Interactive Flora Trail. Go to our website at: orkneylibrary.org.uk/interactive-... to find out more and to hear poems about the various flowers. 🌼
Last month our #LEGO display cases were a breath of fresh air, filled with wild and wonderful LEGO models for our #OrkneyLibraryLego GREAT OUTDOORS theme! 🗿🌴⛰️🌄 All made by library users using our #Lego collection. Thanks to everyone who made us a model! ❤️ Our next theme is A SUMMER OF SPORTS! ⚽️🎾🚴♂️
Someone just asked us which book ended with the best cliffhanger so we told them it was definitely #InternationalJokeDay
Today is #NationalCameraDay so here is a very old and unusual item from our Photographic Archive. It's a stereoscopic card featuring St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall, and it was created by C. Hubbard in the 1860s, which makes it one of the earliest known photographs of #Orkney.
Happy #NationalBarcodeDay everyone. The barcode was first patented in the U.S.A in 1952 but it wasn't until the 26th June 1974 that a barcode was first scanned in a shop in Ohio (on a pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum). #OTD And now we all use them every single day. BEEP BEEP
'What's the first name of the guy who wrote Robinson Crusoe and how sure are you?' 'Daniel. Defo.'
Though if #Scotland win tonight we're keeping them up on the board for the rest of the tournament!
Orkney Library & Archive@orkneylibrary.bsky.social · last mo.We've just updated our #FIFAWorldCup display with #SCOBRA, ahead of tonight's game! Every country is represented by a relevant book that you can borrow from Orkney Library, and each day we're updating our #WorldCup wall chart with the upcoming matches! ⚽️
We've just updated our #FIFAWorldCup display with #SCOBRA, ahead of tonight's game! Every country is represented by a relevant book that you can borrow from Orkney Library, and each day we're updating our #WorldCup wall chart with the upcoming matches! ⚽️
It's Monday night and it's #midsummer so it's time for a special edition of 'How light is it in #Orkney at 11.30pm this week?' You are not going to believe this, but it's the #SummerSolstice, there's absolutely no wind, and it's STILL THIS LIGHT! 💡❤️
The most important news of today is that it is #midsummer and in #Orkney we will have 18 and a half hours of daylight today. Sunrise at 0358 and sunset 2229. 🌞
More than 2000 years ago the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero wrote in a letter to a friend, 'Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, deerit nihil' which means: 'If you have a garden in your library, everything will be complete.'
Orkney Library & Archive@orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 2mo agoLook at our lovely raised bed this morning! ❤️ This is our Moorland bed and it's one of five raised beds, each one representing a different habitat found here in #Orkney. 🌼 Find out more at: orkneylibrary.org.uk/interactive-...
