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! 🚀🛰☄️

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 📚🎧

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

Sunset today 3.16pm. 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. 💡

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.

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

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. 📚

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.

#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

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.

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! 🎅🎄🎁❄️

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. 💡

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

Storm's a comin' #StormBram

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! ❤️👏

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 🎄👇

Behold! The famous Orkney Library & Archive knitted #Christmas tree begins another season of festive cheer in the library! 🎄🧶❤️

Christmas has arrived at The Greatest Library View In The World™️ #Stromness #LibraryView

'The perfect brand collaboration doesn't exist.' Agatha Christie/Mr Men:

Just putting up the Christmas decorations in the staff room.

Good morning to everyone but ESPECIALLY to the lovely Jill from M&S in Leeds who has been a visitor to Orkney Library and has once again sent us a care package of #Christmas themed Percy Pigs! 🎅🐷🎅🐷🎅🐷 Thank you so much Jill. ❤️ (we have the best followers) 😀

A touch of #NorthernLights over #Orkney earlier this evening.

We received a very lovely, generous donation of knitted winter hats so we've made a Winter Warmer Tree to go along with our Winter Coat Rail. 🧶 Anyone needing a cosy hat can take what they need, and if anyone has any spare hats or gloves they can add them to the tree! ❤️ #LoveLibraries

The staff at Stromness Library are getting all set for #Christmas with this brilliantly snowy Spot's Magical Christmas window which was painted by Stephanie. ❄️🌨🎿🐕 #LoveLibraries #Christmas 🎄❤️

For December we're asking customers to illustrate their favourite book covers (or design a cover for a book they've invented!) 📚 We're adding them to our Kirkwall BID Christmas Tree and we'll put the relevant books on display so other readers can follow these recommendations. 🎄

It's a whole year since we joined Bluesky. 🦋 Thanks to everyone who follows us on here, (or any of our other social media channels.) You all help to make this a lot more fun than it would be without you. ❤️

We have an announcement. Stick Man has now made it home to the family tree (with his Stick Lady Love and his Stick children three) ❤️

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 [email protected] and we'll reply with payment information. 🎄🎁

*Update - we have very low stock of bags with the RED LOGO.* 🎁🎄 To order bags or bookmarks please email what you need to [email protected] and we'll get back to you with payment information.

Hoping for aliens/pirate treasure/ancient magical balls

It's that time of year again! 🎄 Imagine the look on your loved ones faces when they unwrap their very own Orkney Library Tote Bag on #Christmas morning! Sturdy canvas bags with the Orkney Library logo in Red, Green, Blue, Purple or Pink. £10 each.

Happy #Thanksgiving    to all our American friends. 🦃 (Turkeys in North Ronaldsay, #Orkney in the 1930s. Taken by Dr Beatrice Garvie)

spent all morning searching for a book about U2 but I still haven't found what I'm looking for

Thanks to everyone who used our craft table to make us an autumn leaf for our library tree. 🍂🍂🍂 Our tree has changed. Winter is coming. 🎄❤️

This guy was left in the library yesterday. 🪵 We don't know much about him but he keeps telling us 1) that he's Stick Man and 2) that he's trying to get back to the family tree If you left Stick Man behind you can collect him from reception.

Happy Birthday to the legendary Billy Connolly who turns 83 today, and who from a young age realised the importance of #Libraries. 'When I was an unhappy little boy, going to the library changed my life. It may even have saved it.' Happy Birthday Big Yin. 🎉🎂🌟❤️

We have just extended our Lend & Mend collection AGAIN so along with our loanable tools and sewing machines we now have a loanable collection of KITCHENWARE. Baking tins, flan dishes, cutters and more. 🍳 #GreenLibraries #LoveLibraries Find out more at: orkneylibrary.org.uk/kitchenware/

Just found this in a book and it's going to hit #Orkney and #Shetland people right in the feels.

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Our loanable tool collection continues to grow! We've now added 2 Dewalt Orbital sanders, 2 Dewalt cordless planers, plus sets of pliers and sets of adjustable spanners. 🔨🛠️🔧 All loanable for FREE at Orkney Library. Find out more about our loanable tool collection at: orkneylibrary.org.uk/tools/

20th November. Half past 4. A month until the winter solstice.

We have an announcement. Our website orkneylibrary.org.uk will be DOWN for a couple of hours THIS AFTERNOON for essential maintenance. Apologies for any inconvenience.

Happy #MobileLibrariesDay! 📚 An annual celebration of all the intrepid Mobile Library drivers who head out across the urban, rural and island communities of Scotland every week, delivering books, knowledge and entertainment. 📚 #BookWeekScotland #LoveLibraries