Wow!

Various sizes of coloured balls sitting in the sun

Nice to be back after a brief research trip to study the colourful balls of sunnier climes. 🌞

*starts researching masonry paint*

We have an announcement.

WE HAVE CHERRY BLOSSOM! 🌸❤️

Thanks once again to the Orkney Japan Association - our tree is one of 30 cherry trees planted across #Orkney as part of the Sakura Cherry Tree Project. 🌸

A photo taken outside Orkney Library and Archive. It's grey and it's raining.

It's a cold, breezy Saturday morning in #Orkney and our balls are wet.

A display of books by the author Una Horne

'No I said it's National UNICORN Day!'

#LoveLibraries #NationalUnicornDay

Our Lend & Mend loanable collection now includes a range of loanable tools, kitchenware, sewing machines, birdwatching kits, games kits and our wintering well kits which proved so popular last winter.

Find out more at: orkneylibrary.org.uk/library-of-t...

A cycle repair toolkit in a black case

A cycle repair stand

The days are longer, the weather is better and it's a great time to get out on your bike so we've just extended our Lend & Mend collection to include 3 Cycle Repair Toolkits AND 2 Cycle Repair Stands. Available to borrow for FREE with your Orkney Library card. 🚵‍♂️

#GreenLibraries #LoveLibraries

Please note.

This means TODAY.

*Rolls between giant metal cogs. Avoids furnace. Quotes Oscar Wilde*

We'll surprise you one other day

The island of Copinsay in Orkney

The island of Alcatraz

Sean Connery in the film The Rock

A poster for the film The Rock

We are CLOSED on Monday 6th April for #EasterMonday.

This year the staff are all heading across to Copinsay lighthouse in speedboats for our annual reenactment of The Rock. It's my turn to be Sean Connery.

See you all when we've stopped Ed Harris and his men*

*next week

Happy Easter! 🐣

We have an announcement.

OUR CHERRY TREE IS BUDDING! 🌸

Thank you to the Orkney Japan Association - our tree is one of 30 cherry trees planted across #Orkney as part of the Sakura Cherry Tree Project. 🌸❤️🌸

Last month our #LEGO display cases were full of fabulously fictional LEGO models for our #OrkneyLibraryLego WORLD BOOK DAY theme! 📚🦸‍♂️🤖

All made by library users using our #Lego collection. Thank you to everyone who made us a model! ❤️

Our next theme is AN EGG-STRAVAGANZA! 🥚

BorrowBox ePress at Orkney Library, showing some of the recent issues available

BorrowBox ePress at Orkney Library, showing some of the recent issues available

BorrowBox ePress at Orkney Library, showing some of the recent issues available

BorrowBox ePress at Orkney Library, showing some of the recent issues available

Daily and weekly newspapers from all around the UK, along with a selection of international newspapers, and magazines on every subject, with back issues available too.

You can log in on your browser or download the FREE BorrowBox App and log in with your Orkney Library card.

The webpage for BorrowBox ePress at Orkney Library, showing some of the recent issues available

If you like our FREE eMagazines then you're going to LOVE this.

We've just upgraded our ePress access to a top tier package so Orkney Library card holders now get FREE ACCESS to more than 300 newspapers from around the world and almost 500 magazines!

orkney.borrowbox.com/epress/featu...

A collage of photographs showing a display of books by Alan Bennett.

We've just made a display of books by Alan Bennett to celebrate the release of #EnoughSaid - his fourth instalment of diaries and prose, covering the years 2016-2024.

Thanks to the @readingagency.bsky.social
for the posters, bookmarks and a copy of the book! 👏

Available to borrow NOW! 📚

You forgot about the KitKats

but we are busy doing that

😂😂😂 got you!

(we're just messing about with books)

We're far too busy to post anything for #AprilFoolsDay this year.

often

Think we've had enough bananas now.

Still wondering where all those KitKats came from though.

This didn't disappoint

The view out the back of the library. It's very cloudy but very light.

Well this is quite unbelievable.

We started back in early January on a cold, dark night BUT now it's the end of March and it's Monday night and it's 5pm so it's time for EPISODE TWELVE of 'How light is it in #Orkney at 5pm this week?'

OMG
PEOPLE
IT
IS
THIS
LIGHT!
💡❤️🌞

Orkney banana bonanza after Tesco store orders 38,000 by mistake An ordering glitch has left Tesco in Kirkwall giving away boxes of the fruit for free to schools and community groups.

Books on baking banana bread available now 🍌

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Can't wait for 5 o'clock today. Not to get away from work, but to be astounded by how light it is.

And then get home and talk about it some more.

Then say it again later.

And then keep checking the sky after that.

Then when it IS dark talk about how late it is.

Can't wait.

We like this A LOT

A black and white archive photograph of a cat sitting on a cannon and arching his back. A dog is sitting right in front of the cannon.

It's Saturday but it's also #RespectYourCatDay so if you're ever sitting in front of a cannon with a cat near the firing mechanism then you better make sure you show it some respect. #Caturday

A real life Tom & Jerry cartoon from our Photographic Archive.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Googly eyes have been added to the cover artwork

Reader, I googlied him

The view out the back of the library. The streetlights are off. It's overcast but full daylight.

Bet you thought we'd forgotten to check how light it was at 5pm this week? Yeah you did!

Well it's Thursday night and it's 5pm so it's time for EPISODE ELEVEN of 'How light is it in #Orkney at 5pm this week?'

The clocks change on Saturday and right now

it's THIS LIGHT 💡

A white van with the Orkney Library logo with Stromness and Hoy in the background

A calm, overcast day delivering books to our Home Library customers in Stenness, Orphir and Stromness. The Hamnavoe is tied up in the harbour between sailings to the mainland.