This is your annual reminder to shift your car off the Up Helly Aa route by 2pm lest it be towed away for ceremonial burning. 🙂🔥

Annually, on the last Tuesday in January- if you’re late for work and use the excuse “a bunch of Vikings & a longship were holding up traffic” it is perfectly acceptable. 😉 🔥 Wishing Guizer Jarl Lynden Nicolson, his squad and all a brilliant Up Helly Aa 2026! 🔥 #uphellyaa #vikings #lerwick

We’ve totted up our ‘most borrowed’ lists for 2025 and guess what, local favourite Jen Hadfield out-loaned @richardosman1.bsky.social for top book! Great loans for Malachy Tallack and Marianne Brown too. We love Richard too of course! Read more on our website: www.shetland.gov.uk/libraries/ne...

WELL! This series of #TheTraitors has certainly got us on the edge of our seats (and often arguing with the TV screen!) No spoilers here, but if you would like to read Harriet’s published work- they are available to request from the Library!

More snow! It’s been quite a week of it, but the Library as always is a warm cosy haven 🙂❤️❄️☃️

We are open today until 8pm but our Reminiscing session and Lego hour are cancelled. we’re sorry for the inconvenience as weather disruptions continue.

📖Staff Top Reads 2025 - the managers Marghie - That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz, Malachy Tallack Chloe - Nightbitch, Rachel Yoder Nicola - The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt Catherine - The Let Them Theory, Mel Robbins Karen - Lee Child's One Shot on audio Not a Christmassy bunch, are they? 🙂

📖Shetland Library Staff Top Reads 2025 - BOOKBUG EDITION! @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social Our Bookbug Leaders picked favourite books they read at sessions this year. There's LOTs of them! 🚘Car, Car, Truck, Jeep - Katrina Charman and Nick Sharratt 🌜Let's go into Space - Petr Horacek...

📖 Top Reads 2025📚 MOBILE & HOME DELIVERY TEAM Our van services bring the library to customers the length and breadth of Shetland. Their own favourites are *quite* varied and include … Tell Me Everything/ Elizabeth Strout The Pumpkin Spice Café/ Laurie Gilmore The Colour of Money/ Terry Pratchett…

📚Staff Top Reads of 2025📖 First up it's the Processing team who have the best job - being the first to see the new books that come in! They had a long list... Blurb Your Enthusiasm by Louise Willder Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut Butter by Asako Yuzuki Catch 22, by Joseph Heller...

It's Mobile Libraries Day! #MobileLibrariesDay2025 Today we celebrate the vital library services on wheels throughout Scotland. Sadly today's weather means Leona can't get out west, but we will have the big van outside HQ this morning, if anyone would like to take a look inside!

Our Lego Club took the theme of Friendship for @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social #BookWeekScotland and did an absolutely sterling job. Thanks for all the ways you built and represented friendship, gang!

4pm today. What we love about the new dark afternoons is how the Library is a shining beacon of welcome on Lower Hillhead 🙂❤️

Mark Steel last night and 'Shetland' tonight. We love it when the media revolves around us and we are looking forward to stepping into the village of Lunniswick. @anncleeves.bsky.social really started something when she launched 'Raven Black' here almost 20 years ago. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Ha ha, the Library got a few mentions as in fact did @orkneylibrary.bsky.social If you missed it you can now listen again at the link below.

Oh yes, Mark Steel's in toon da night - be sure to tune in and hear what he makes of the good folk of Lerwick! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Please do ask your local library to get in all the books you love. If you’re a writer to, remember to register for PLR.

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?

You are dead to us Jimmy Perez, you traitor. And sassermaet rules!

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!

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...

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 📖🌟

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…

It's a fraught time for many as the big Internet outage drags on. Thankfully our WiFi is working - while visiting to use it, do borrow books, DVDs and jigsaws so you can really enjoy your retro internet-free evenings at home... 😀 www.shetnews.co.uk/2025/07/28/msp-calls-cable-damage-explanation/

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!.

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

Book launch Vod: Shetland’s Abandoned Crofthouses by Christine De Luca 29 July @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social – free Launching Christine De Luca’s latest book, featuring photos & short poems in Shaetlan with English versions shetland.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...

Yes we do 😎

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!

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!

The Salt Path is one of our most popular books. There's a social media rush to condemn Raynor Winn on the back of one Observer article, which is the way these things roll. Her own statement is worth a read to get beyond the soundbites. The story will always be interesting. www.raynorwinn.co.uk

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/...

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…🙂

Perpetual party over at our place 😃

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

Whoa! There’s a monster at the window. Oh - it’s yourselves, Watts Window Washing. 😄👍

Excellent. We have an eclectic mix of trolleys. We should have an inter-county Trolley-Off.

‘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…?

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

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? 🤔😍

Bon voyage Ann 🙂 See you at #ShetlandNoir if not before.

View from the Library today - there’s a ship in the car park!

Looks like this has been a great excavation.

Guess where we've been today? At the cakefest that was the official launch of Shetland Noir 2026! The first headline author was announced - it's LEE CHILD! Thanks for all the cake, @anncleeves.bsky.social 🙂 @leechild58.bsky.social - is this really you, Lee? 🙂 www.shetlandarts.org/blog/shetlan...

Your sometimes reminder that ‘Books can’t make you gay - but they can make you happy.’ 🙂🏳️‍🌈 Check out our book and DVD displays for #LGBT History Month and good luck to the organisers of Shetland #Pride this Saturday - hope da wadder holds for you.

Thank you to @natlibscot.bsky.social for highlighting the way libraries bring folk together. Love our Memories groups! #LibrariesChangeLives