Shetland Library
@shetlandlibrary.bsky.social
Free, fun, informative and educational - public and school library services for Shetland. Further north than Orkney.
01595 743868 shetlandlibrary@shetland.gov.uk
01595 743868 shetlandlibrary@shetland.gov.uk
4pm today. What we love about the new dark afternoons is how the Library is a shining beacon of welcome on Lower Hillhead 🙂❤️
November 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
4pm today. What we love about the new dark afternoons is how the Library is a shining beacon of welcome on Lower Hillhead 🙂❤️
These are as tasty as they look!
This is the second time in a week our staff have received beautiful homegrown tomatoes from a cusomer. How lucky are we?
Library folks, what’s the nicest thing a kind customer has brought for your staff?
This is the second time in a week our staff have received beautiful homegrown tomatoes from a cusomer. How lucky are we?
Library folks, what’s the nicest thing a kind customer has brought for your staff?
October 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
These are as tasty as they look!
This is the second time in a week our staff have received beautiful homegrown tomatoes from a cusomer. How lucky are we?
Library folks, what’s the nicest thing a kind customer has brought for your staff?
This is the second time in a week our staff have received beautiful homegrown tomatoes from a cusomer. How lucky are we?
Library folks, what’s the nicest thing a kind customer has brought for your staff?
NEW ON LIBBY
From Pancakes to Perez - here is a new selection of eBooks and eAudio on our Libby App.
If you haven't used our apps before, ask for a quick demo next time you're in the library!
From Pancakes to Perez - here is a new selection of eBooks and eAudio on our Libby App.
If you haven't used our apps before, ask for a quick demo next time you're in the library!
October 8, 2025 at 9:17 AM
NEW ON LIBBY
From Pancakes to Perez - here is a new selection of eBooks and eAudio on our Libby App.
If you haven't used our apps before, ask for a quick demo next time you're in the library!
From Pancakes to Perez - here is a new selection of eBooks and eAudio on our Libby App.
If you haven't used our apps before, ask for a quick demo next time you're in the library!
Yesterday was #NationalPlaylistDay celebrating @playlistforlife.bsky.social the power of music on memory. We asked for suggestions & had a lovely day sharing memories. Here is our playlist! Thanks to all of our customers and staff who added suggestions
open.spotify.com/playlist/4oD...
open.spotify.com/playlist/4oD...
September 20, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Yesterday was #NationalPlaylistDay celebrating @playlistforlife.bsky.social the power of music on memory. We asked for suggestions & had a lovely day sharing memories. Here is our playlist! Thanks to all of our customers and staff who added suggestions
open.spotify.com/playlist/4oD...
open.spotify.com/playlist/4oD...
LOOK! Our vintage ‘club books’ are now in stock for you to browse. Fabulous nostalgia - 1970s, 1980s and even a 1990s one (hey, that was just yesterday!) Find them in our reference section 🙂
September 2, 2025 at 7:17 AM
LOOK! Our vintage ‘club books’ are now in stock for you to browse. Fabulous nostalgia - 1970s, 1980s and even a 1990s one (hey, that was just yesterday!) Find them in our reference section 🙂
Calling all Shetland book groups!
Nominate books to add to our Book Group sets.
📚 A favourite book your group has loved, or
📚 A book you’d love to read together
This year’s Book Week Scotland theme is friendship 💞 What's more special than sharing a great read with friends?
Comment or message us 📖🌟
Nominate books to add to our Book Group sets.
📚 A favourite book your group has loved, or
📚 A book you’d love to read together
This year’s Book Week Scotland theme is friendship 💞 What's more special than sharing a great read with friends?
Comment or message us 📖🌟
August 28, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Calling all Shetland book groups!
Nominate books to add to our Book Group sets.
📚 A favourite book your group has loved, or
📚 A book you’d love to read together
This year’s Book Week Scotland theme is friendship 💞 What's more special than sharing a great read with friends?
Comment or message us 📖🌟
Nominate books to add to our Book Group sets.
📚 A favourite book your group has loved, or
📚 A book you’d love to read together
This year’s Book Week Scotland theme is friendship 💞 What's more special than sharing a great read with friends?
Comment or message us 📖🌟
LOOK at aa wir owls and puffins! It’s been a fabulous library summer and it’s not over yet! 🙂❤️😎
August 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
LOOK at aa wir owls and puffins! It’s been a fabulous library summer and it’s not over yet! 🙂❤️😎
Apparently it’s International Cat Day (when is it not?) and what do you know, we got a visit from Tommy, Lerwick’s celebrity moggie. We’ve told him he’s not allowed in but hey, he’s a cat…
August 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Apparently it’s International Cat Day (when is it not?) and what do you know, we got a visit from Tommy, Lerwick’s celebrity moggie. We’ve told him he’s not allowed in but hey, he’s a cat…
We got a lovely email from one of our USA visitors. 🙂
A good time to remind everyone we offer temporary memberships if you are only in Shetland for a short time - and that we have lovely staff!.
A good time to remind everyone we offer temporary memberships if you are only in Shetland for a short time - and that we have lovely staff!.
July 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
We got a lovely email from one of our USA visitors. 🙂
A good time to remind everyone we offer temporary memberships if you are only in Shetland for a short time - and that we have lovely staff!.
A good time to remind everyone we offer temporary memberships if you are only in Shetland for a short time - and that we have lovely staff!.
We were delighted to have @michaelpedersen.bsky.social and @holliemcnish.bsky.social pop in to see us! #SuperSheltie is demonstrating with his wee hooves the amount of delight #ThisMuch
July 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM
We were delighted to have @michaelpedersen.bsky.social and @holliemcnish.bsky.social pop in to see us! #SuperSheltie is demonstrating with his wee hooves the amount of delight #ThisMuch
Is there nothing on the trolley that takes your fancy, sir?
July 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Is there nothing on the trolley that takes your fancy, sir?
We designed our own Summer Reading Challenge this year and it includes *extra stamps* for completing activities. Feel free to play along!
July 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
We designed our own Summer Reading Challenge this year and it includes *extra stamps* for completing activities. Feel free to play along!
Scorchio! It's been at least 19C all weekend up here, believe us that's hot for us!
Remember the Library has lots of maps and guides to borrow if you are out and about. More important, don't forget the sun cream!
Remember the Library has lots of maps and guides to borrow if you are out and about. More important, don't forget the sun cream!
July 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Scorchio! It's been at least 19C all weekend up here, believe us that's hot for us!
Remember the Library has lots of maps and guides to borrow if you are out and about. More important, don't forget the sun cream!
Remember the Library has lots of maps and guides to borrow if you are out and about. More important, don't forget the sun cream!
Hurrah! We have reached over 1.000 followers and we are celebrating with A Thousand Feasts by the lovely @nigelslater.bsky.social
This book is part of our #BigTastyRead promo - 'using food to inspire reading' 🙂🍪🍕
More info here: readingagency.org.uk/get-reading/...
This book is part of our #BigTastyRead promo - 'using food to inspire reading' 🙂🍪🍕
More info here: readingagency.org.uk/get-reading/...
July 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Hurrah! We have reached over 1.000 followers and we are celebrating with A Thousand Feasts by the lovely @nigelslater.bsky.social
This book is part of our #BigTastyRead promo - 'using food to inspire reading' 🙂🍪🍕
More info here: readingagency.org.uk/get-reading/...
This book is part of our #BigTastyRead promo - 'using food to inspire reading' 🙂🍪🍕
More info here: readingagency.org.uk/get-reading/...
No sooner said than done, says our dashing equine superhero.
#SuperSheltie
#SuperSheltie
July 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
No sooner said than done, says our dashing equine superhero.
#SuperSheltie
#SuperSheltie
Seven, Seven… *Seven* more followers required to get us to 1,000! What should we do to get us over the line…time for a #SuperSheltie stunt perhaps? 🙂7️⃣👍
July 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Seven, Seven… *Seven* more followers required to get us to 1,000! What should we do to get us over the line…time for a #SuperSheltie stunt perhaps? 🙂7️⃣👍
Found in a library book - we are very intrigued by the ‘method’ for this…recipe? We’ve heard of deconstructed dishes but this appears to be *constructing* something very technical with mince…🙂
July 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Found in a library book - we are very intrigued by the ‘method’ for this…recipe? We’ve heard of deconstructed dishes but this appears to be *constructing* something very technical with mince…🙂
New eAudio books are appearing on our Borrowbox app - including fiction from Lee Child and Nita Prose and Non-Fiction from Miriam Margolyes and Jeremy Rener!
shetland.borrowbox.com
shetland.borrowbox.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
New eAudio books are appearing on our Borrowbox app - including fiction from Lee Child and Nita Prose and Non-Fiction from Miriam Margolyes and Jeremy Rener!
shetland.borrowbox.com
shetland.borrowbox.com
Whoa! There’s a monster at the window. Oh - it’s yourselves, Watts Window Washing. 😄👍
June 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Whoa! There’s a monster at the window. Oh - it’s yourselves, Watts Window Washing. 😄👍
‘Leave me here - not lunch.’
This intriguing lunchbox and note is on the staff room windowsill. We daren’t look - wondering if it’s not lunch, what IS it…?
This intriguing lunchbox and note is on the staff room windowsill. We daren’t look - wondering if it’s not lunch, what IS it…?
June 26, 2025 at 8:13 AM
‘Leave me here - not lunch.’
This intriguing lunchbox and note is on the staff room windowsill. We daren’t look - wondering if it’s not lunch, what IS it…?
This intriguing lunchbox and note is on the staff room windowsill. We daren’t look - wondering if it’s not lunch, what IS it…?
You might have noticed #SuperSheltie has been keeping a low profile since Twitter went all Musky. Well our National Library was missing him so much they sent a crack team up yesterday to find him! 🙂😎🐎
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@natlibscot.bsky.social action will be coming before long - and more #SuperSheltie
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@natlibscot.bsky.social action will be coming before long - and more #SuperSheltie
June 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
You might have noticed #SuperSheltie has been keeping a low profile since Twitter went all Musky. Well our National Library was missing him so much they sent a crack team up yesterday to find him! 🙂😎🐎
More
@natlibscot.bsky.social action will be coming before long - and more #SuperSheltie
More
@natlibscot.bsky.social action will be coming before long - and more #SuperSheltie
Our Lego Club is a source of great interest even for those of us that don’t take part. What do you think this is? 🤔😍
June 24, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Our Lego Club is a source of great interest even for those of us that don’t take part. What do you think this is? 🤔😍
View from the Library today - there’s a ship in the car park!
June 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
View from the Library today - there’s a ship in the car park!
Muckle thanks to Michael Pedersen & Forum Books for sending us a beautiful signed copy of Michael’s debut novel - Muckle Flugga!
“A fever dream of a book, melding myth and magic to the monumental landscape of Scotland” - Ian Rankin
@michaelpedersen.bsky.social
@forumbooks.bsky.social
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“A fever dream of a book, melding myth and magic to the monumental landscape of Scotland” - Ian Rankin
@michaelpedersen.bsky.social
@forumbooks.bsky.social
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June 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Muckle thanks to Michael Pedersen & Forum Books for sending us a beautiful signed copy of Michael’s debut novel - Muckle Flugga!
“A fever dream of a book, melding myth and magic to the monumental landscape of Scotland” - Ian Rankin
@michaelpedersen.bsky.social
@forumbooks.bsky.social
…
“A fever dream of a book, melding myth and magic to the monumental landscape of Scotland” - Ian Rankin
@michaelpedersen.bsky.social
@forumbooks.bsky.social
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