Orkney Library & Archive
@orkneylibrary.bsky.social
Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
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Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
Our #Lego display cases are packed full of fabulously festive LEGO models for our MERRY & BRIGHT #OrkneyLibraryLego theme! 🎄🎁
All made by library users using our #Lego collection. Thanks to everyone who made us a #Christmas model! ❤️
Our first theme of 2026 will be SPACE! 🚀🛰☄️
All made by library users using our #Lego collection. Thanks to everyone who made us a #Christmas model! ❤️
Our first theme of 2026 will be SPACE! 🚀🛰☄️
December 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Our #Lego display cases are packed full of fabulously festive LEGO models for our MERRY & BRIGHT #OrkneyLibraryLego theme! 🎄🎁
All made by library users using our #Lego collection. Thanks to everyone who made us a #Christmas model! ❤️
Our first theme of 2026 will be SPACE! 🚀🛰☄️
All made by library users using our #Lego collection. Thanks to everyone who made us a #Christmas model! ❤️
Our first theme of 2026 will be SPACE! 🚀🛰☄️
Don't forget that even when the library is CLOSED over #Christmas you can still get FREE access to eBooks, eAudiobooks and eMagazines through the free
@BorrowBox App! 🎄📱📚
Available 24 hours a day with your Orkney Library card. Find out more at: orkney.borrowbox.com 📚🎧
@BorrowBox App! 🎄📱📚
Available 24 hours a day with your Orkney Library card. Find out more at: orkney.borrowbox.com 📚🎧
December 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Don't forget that even when the library is CLOSED over #Christmas you can still get FREE access to eBooks, eAudiobooks and eMagazines through the free
@BorrowBox App! 🎄📱📚
Available 24 hours a day with your Orkney Library card. Find out more at: orkney.borrowbox.com 📚🎧
@BorrowBox App! 🎄📱📚
Available 24 hours a day with your Orkney Library card. Find out more at: orkney.borrowbox.com 📚🎧
We don't need an elf on the shelf because we've got
December 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM
We don't need an elf on the shelf because we've got
Thanks to Kim for sending us this lovely Agatha Christie postcard for #Christmas! Featuring the original dustjacket artwork for Hercule Poirot's Christmas!
If you've not read it yet then this is definitely the month to read it! 🔪💀🌨☃️ #ReadChristie2025
If you've not read it yet then this is definitely the month to read it! 🔪💀🌨☃️ #ReadChristie2025
December 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Thanks to Kim for sending us this lovely Agatha Christie postcard for #Christmas! Featuring the original dustjacket artwork for Hercule Poirot's Christmas!
If you've not read it yet then this is definitely the month to read it! 🔪💀🌨☃️ #ReadChristie2025
If you've not read it yet then this is definitely the month to read it! 🔪💀🌨☃️ #ReadChristie2025
Sunset today 3.16pm.
Summer is coming. 🌞
Summer is coming. 🌞
#Orkney. 20th December.
Sunrise 9.03am
Sunset 3.15pm
Tomorrow is the #WinterSolstice. In 2 days the sunset will be a minute later than today. In 2 months it will be 2 hours later. By June we'll have 18 and a half hours of daylight in #Orkney. 💡
Sunrise 9.03am
Sunset 3.15pm
Tomorrow is the #WinterSolstice. In 2 days the sunset will be a minute later than today. In 2 months it will be 2 hours later. By June we'll have 18 and a half hours of daylight in #Orkney. 💡
December 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Sunset today 3.16pm.
Summer is coming. 🌞
Summer is coming. 🌞
#Orkney. 20th December.
Sunrise 9.03am
Sunset 3.15pm
Tomorrow is the #WinterSolstice. In 2 days the sunset will be a minute later than today. In 2 months it will be 2 hours later. By June we'll have 18 and a half hours of daylight in #Orkney. 💡
Sunrise 9.03am
Sunset 3.15pm
Tomorrow is the #WinterSolstice. In 2 days the sunset will be a minute later than today. In 2 months it will be 2 hours later. By June we'll have 18 and a half hours of daylight in #Orkney. 💡
December 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
#Orkney. 20th December.
Sunrise 9.03am
Sunset 3.15pm
Tomorrow is the #WinterSolstice. In 2 days the sunset will be a minute later than today. In 2 months it will be 2 hours later. By June we'll have 18 and a half hours of daylight in #Orkney. 💡
Sunrise 9.03am
Sunset 3.15pm
Tomorrow is the #WinterSolstice. In 2 days the sunset will be a minute later than today. In 2 months it will be 2 hours later. By June we'll have 18 and a half hours of daylight in #Orkney. 💡
We don't need an elf on the shelf because we've got
December 20, 2025 at 10:43 AM
We don't need an elf on the shelf because we've got
We have an announcement.
The Archive will be CLOSED tomorrow (Saturday 20th December) due to staff sickness. Apologies for any disappointment.
The Library will be OPEN as normal.
We hope this Archive photograph of seagulls waiting for the ferry makes up for any disappointment.
The Archive will be CLOSED tomorrow (Saturday 20th December) due to staff sickness. Apologies for any disappointment.
The Library will be OPEN as normal.
We hope this Archive photograph of seagulls waiting for the ferry makes up for any disappointment.
December 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
We have an announcement.
The Archive will be CLOSED tomorrow (Saturday 20th December) due to staff sickness. Apologies for any disappointment.
The Library will be OPEN as normal.
We hope this Archive photograph of seagulls waiting for the ferry makes up for any disappointment.
The Archive will be CLOSED tomorrow (Saturday 20th December) due to staff sickness. Apologies for any disappointment.
The Library will be OPEN as normal.
We hope this Archive photograph of seagulls waiting for the ferry makes up for any disappointment.
Imagine a world where instead of queuing up to buy the Christmas edition of the Radio Times, you can just download it for FREE using your Orkney Library card and the FREE BorrowBox App.
Once again, libraries:
1) saving money
2) cutting waste
3) spreading joy
#LoveLibraries
Once again, libraries:
1) saving money
2) cutting waste
3) spreading joy
#LoveLibraries
December 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Imagine a world where instead of queuing up to buy the Christmas edition of the Radio Times, you can just download it for FREE using your Orkney Library card and the FREE BorrowBox App.
Once again, libraries:
1) saving money
2) cutting waste
3) spreading joy
#LoveLibraries
Once again, libraries:
1) saving money
2) cutting waste
3) spreading joy
#LoveLibraries
We don't need an elf on the shelf because we've got a
December 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
We don't need an elf on the shelf because we've got a
#BookyMcBookface is away out east to Deerness today for his last trip of 2025! 📚
If you're in the East Mainland of #Orkney today then go and say hello, and pick up some new books for over the festive season. 📚
If you're in the East Mainland of #Orkney today then go and say hello, and pick up some new books for over the festive season. 📚
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
#BookyMcBookface is away out east to Deerness today for his last trip of 2025! 📚
If you're in the East Mainland of #Orkney today then go and say hello, and pick up some new books for over the festive season. 📚
If you're in the East Mainland of #Orkney today then go and say hello, and pick up some new books for over the festive season. 📚
You've heard of Elf on the Shelf but how about
December 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
You've heard of Elf on the Shelf but how about
Yesterday we had some unusual, festive visitors who stopped off at the library on their way to work! 🦌🦌
This is Aztec and Jelly, the Cairngorm Reindeer, on their way to meet Christmas shoppers at William Shearer's wonderful shop in Kirkwall.
This is Aztec and Jelly, the Cairngorm Reindeer, on their way to meet Christmas shoppers at William Shearer's wonderful shop in Kirkwall.
December 15, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Yesterday we had some unusual, festive visitors who stopped off at the library on their way to work! 🦌🦌
This is Aztec and Jelly, the Cairngorm Reindeer, on their way to meet Christmas shoppers at William Shearer's wonderful shop in Kirkwall.
This is Aztec and Jelly, the Cairngorm Reindeer, on their way to meet Christmas shoppers at William Shearer's wonderful shop in Kirkwall.
#BookyMcBookface heading north on the ferry this morning, to spend the day on the beautiful #Orkney island of Stronsay. ❤️📚
December 15, 2025 at 8:39 AM
#BookyMcBookface heading north on the ferry this morning, to spend the day on the beautiful #Orkney island of Stronsay. ❤️📚
The Plough and the #NorthernLights over Stromness this evening. #Orkney
December 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The Plough and the #NorthernLights over Stromness this evening. #Orkney
We have an announcement.
The Archive will be CLOSED tomorrow (Saturday 13th December) due to staff sickness. Apologies for any disappointment.
The Library will be OPEN as normal.
We hope this Archive photograph of a man falling off a sledge makes up for any disappointment.
The Archive will be CLOSED tomorrow (Saturday 13th December) due to staff sickness. Apologies for any disappointment.
The Library will be OPEN as normal.
We hope this Archive photograph of a man falling off a sledge makes up for any disappointment.
December 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
We have an announcement.
The Archive will be CLOSED tomorrow (Saturday 13th December) due to staff sickness. Apologies for any disappointment.
The Library will be OPEN as normal.
We hope this Archive photograph of a man falling off a sledge makes up for any disappointment.
The Archive will be CLOSED tomorrow (Saturday 13th December) due to staff sickness. Apologies for any disappointment.
The Library will be OPEN as normal.
We hope this Archive photograph of a man falling off a sledge makes up for any disappointment.
Our #Lego display cases have been full of agriculturally excellent Lego models for our HARVEST #OrkneyLibraryLego theme! 🚜👨🌾🐖🌱
All made by library users using our #Lego collection. Thanks to everyone who made us a #Harvest model! ❤️
Our next theme is MERRY & BRIGHT! 🎅🎄🎁❄️
All made by library users using our #Lego collection. Thanks to everyone who made us a #Harvest model! ❤️
Our next theme is MERRY & BRIGHT! 🎅🎄🎁❄️
December 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Our #Lego display cases have been full of agriculturally excellent Lego models for our HARVEST #OrkneyLibraryLego theme! 🚜👨🌾🐖🌱
All made by library users using our #Lego collection. Thanks to everyone who made us a #Harvest model! ❤️
Our next theme is MERRY & BRIGHT! 🎅🎄🎁❄️
All made by library users using our #Lego collection. Thanks to everyone who made us a #Harvest model! ❤️
Our next theme is MERRY & BRIGHT! 🎅🎄🎁❄️
It's 16 minutes past 3. The sun has set in #Orkney. Just 6 hours and 19 minutes of daylight today.
We are almost at the shortest day but there will still be 9 minutes less daylight on the #WinterSolstice.
And then the light returns. 💡
We are almost at the shortest day but there will still be 9 minutes less daylight on the #WinterSolstice.
And then the light returns. 💡
December 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
It's 16 minutes past 3. The sun has set in #Orkney. Just 6 hours and 19 minutes of daylight today.
We are almost at the shortest day but there will still be 9 minutes less daylight on the #WinterSolstice.
And then the light returns. 💡
We are almost at the shortest day but there will still be 9 minutes less daylight on the #WinterSolstice.
And then the light returns. 💡
It's a little known fact that back in the old days, girls liked to celebrate #Christmas by walking about in threes.
December 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
It's a little known fact that back in the old days, girls liked to celebrate #Christmas by walking about in threes.
Pretty sure we've just caught Richard Osman time travelling again
December 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Pretty sure we've just caught Richard Osman time travelling again
December 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Huge thanks to Jessie who came along to Orkney Library last weekend and decorated our foyer windows with these incredible #Christmas characters and jolly festive scenes!
They all look absolutely brilliant! ❤️👏
They all look absolutely brilliant! ❤️👏
December 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Huge thanks to Jessie who came along to Orkney Library last weekend and decorated our foyer windows with these incredible #Christmas characters and jolly festive scenes!
They all look absolutely brilliant! ❤️👏
They all look absolutely brilliant! ❤️👏
Our exclusive Limited Edition 3D printed bookmarks are nearly all gone!
If you've reserved one but not paid yet please make payment before Wednesday THIS WEEK. Any unpaid orders will go back on sale to help fulfil demand. Tote Bags still available - more details below 🎄👇
If you've reserved one but not paid yet please make payment before Wednesday THIS WEEK. Any unpaid orders will go back on sale to help fulfil demand. Tote Bags still available - more details below 🎄👇
The first of our LIMITED EDITION 3D PRINTED ORKNEY LIBRARY BOOKMARKS are being sent out into the world today. 📨
If you'd like one (£2.50 each) OR an exclusive Orkney Library Tote Bag (£10) please email library@orkney.gov.uk and we'll reply with payment information. 🎄🎁
If you'd like one (£2.50 each) OR an exclusive Orkney Library Tote Bag (£10) please email library@orkney.gov.uk and we'll reply with payment information. 🎄🎁
December 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Our exclusive Limited Edition 3D printed bookmarks are nearly all gone!
If you've reserved one but not paid yet please make payment before Wednesday THIS WEEK. Any unpaid orders will go back on sale to help fulfil demand. Tote Bags still available - more details below 🎄👇
If you've reserved one but not paid yet please make payment before Wednesday THIS WEEK. Any unpaid orders will go back on sale to help fulfil demand. Tote Bags still available - more details below 🎄👇
Behold! The famous Orkney Library & Archive knitted #Christmas tree begins another season of festive cheer in the library! 🎄🧶❤️
December 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Behold! The famous Orkney Library & Archive knitted #Christmas tree begins another season of festive cheer in the library! 🎄🧶❤️
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM