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6 years

The only boy who could ever teach me, was the son of a Reacher fan.

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You can always tell when Sting has been in to return his books.

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So over the last few months kids keep coming into the library asking if we have any books about this thing FORTNITE. We don't and I'd never heard of it so I tried asking what it was.

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We've just had a library book returned that was due back in 1974 how's your day going?

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4 years

We have an announcement. There is a cat in the library. We repeat. 👏There👏is👏a👏cat👏in👏the👏library👏

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We have an announcement. We just found an old @WHSmith paper bag folded in a book and it looks like how things used to be.

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3 years

We have breaking news. The Mobile Library is in Evie today and a cat has just walked aboard. 👏A👏CAT👏HAS👏JUST👏WALKED👏ABOARD👏THE👏MOBILE👏LIBRARY👏

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In one of our archive strong rooms there is a shelf. The shelf does not contain the most exciting or interesting item in the archive but it does contain something amazing. A thread.

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4 years

When it's 9am and you forgot the library doesn't open until 10.

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6 years

Try to imagine life in 2634. This is why archives, museums and libraries are amazing. End.

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3 years

You've heard of Elf on the Shelf but how about

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6 years

If you've got a better photograph of a cat being furious while trying to appear nonchalant in the face of a lap-stealing otter, then I'd like to see it. #Orkney #Archives #SaturdayMorning #Caturday

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3 months

It's only Monday morning and we've already had a book returned that was due back in 1977 how's your day going?

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5 years

A penguin made of Penguins. Happy #WorldPenguinDay

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As our Instagram and Facebook following grows, our Twitter seems to slowly fall, bit by bit. Soon we'll be sitting here, on an island, on our own, talking to some cows, about how it used to be. So we tweet on, cows against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

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10 days

We just moved a pile of books and found this again, flatter and even older than before. Everything was better back when you got paper bags like this.

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1 year

We have an announcement. We just found an old @WHSmith paper bag folded in a book and it looks like how things used to be.

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1 year

Our VERY overdue tomato book has now been given a shiny new cover, a new number and it's been catalogued so it can be borrowed again, 50 years after it was last borrowed. 🍅

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1 year

We've just had a library book returned that was due back in 1974 how's your day going?

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11 months

This was #BookyMcBookface our Mobile Library sailing through the Fall of Warness on his way to Sanday yesterday 💨🌊💨🌊💨

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6 months

Mordor she wrote

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3 years

okay who did this

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6 years

This is #RecycleWeek so we're taking back all the books that people have read, putting them onto shelves for people to look through, then giving them out again to all the people who haven't read them yet. Seems to be working well. 😉 #Libraries

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4 years

with a rebel yell she cried

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7 years

John Green, Jane Green, Jen Green, Joe Green ...I'm begging of you please don't take my man

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6 years

When you work with books, there is nothing quite so pleasing as a complete series of novels all lined up in a row. But what order to file them in? Your head says numerical. Your inner librarian says alphabetical. BUT YOUR HEART SAYS RAINBOW ❤🧡💛💚💙💜

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3 years

Years ago we put googly eyes on a giant paperclip and stuck it to the wall. Now the blu tack has melted and the paperclip has grown ears and this is basically what Darwin was talking about.

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2 years

Mordor she wrote

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10 months

Even the microwave in the staff room has a Christmas decoration. 🎄

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3 years

A penguin of Penguins. For #PenguinAwarenessDay 🐧

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3 years

The queue for the library this morning.

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8 months

Happy #InternationalWomensDay everybody. One of our all-time favourite photos from our Photographic Archive is this undated photo of a very young suffrage campaigner on the streets of Stromness #Orkney , taken by Robert H. Robertson early last century.

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2 years

They may take our #BlueTick , but they'll never take our balls

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2 years

Would anyone else prefer to turn off the news and look at a cheery photograph of some card index drawers right about now?

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6 years

Whoa Black Betty.

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3 years

whoa black betty

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2 years

NOBODY MOVE THERE IS A DOG IN THE LIBRARY A👏DOG👏IN👏THE👏LIBRARY👏

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4 years

Anyone else need a cheery photo of some card index drawers right about now?

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5 years

We're sad to hear that Judith Kerr has died. If you've never read The Tiger Who Came to Tea, read it today. If you've not read it for a while, read it today. If you've not read it today, read it today. 🐯☕️

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7 months

Like many amateur photographers, we do occasionally experiment with editing.

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5 months

Today is #WorldEnvironmentDay ‌ so we're being very sustainable by taking back all the books that people have read, putting them onto shelves for people to look through, then giving them out again to other people who haven't read them yet. It's a great system. ♻�� #Libraries

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6 years

You can always tell when Prefab Sprout have been in to return their books.

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11 months

You don't need an elf on the shelf if you've got a

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6 years

Firstly, I know now that Fortnite is an online video game that was created in 2017 and already has more than 125 million players worldwide. Apparently it's very addictive. And secondly I learned that...

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6 years

While his Dad looked through our Lee Child books (he was a huge fan so he was re-reading the series) I asked the boy to explain Fortnite to me. And he did. He told me all about it. He taught me what nobody else had been able to teach me. And now I know two things.

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7 years

'A lady just came in asking for a book about black and white birds but she doesn't want penguins or puffins. I haven't got a clue. Any ideas?' 'Auks?' 'I know it is mate. Totes.'

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8 months

Roses are red, coats go on hooks. We've made you a love heart, from Library books. Happy #ValentinesDay to all our followers but especially YOU because you're our favourite. 💕

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2 years

On #WorldPenguinDay we will always tweet our Penguin Books penguin 🐧

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10 months

I've just catalogued a SCRATCH AND SNIFF book called FARMYARD FARTS how's your day going?

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6 years

It's a long standing tradition that every year on this date we like to pile that guy Faulks on top of The Bonfire of the Vanities. *snorts* #GuyFawkesNight #BonfireNight

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6 years

Turns out that not ALL our old stock is suitable for the book sale trolley. I've been withdrawing thriller novels from the 70s and 80s and sorting them into piles based on their cover artwork. So far there are only two categories.

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5 months

Amazing #NorthernLights over the library last night so lucky to see it

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6 years

Disco inferno. #Burns #BurnsNight #RobertBurns

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2 years

You don't need an elf on the shelf when you've got a

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6 years

'Can I take these books out?' 'Yes. Do you have your library card?' 'Um...*takes out card*...sorry about the hole. You see...it's my son...he plays the guitar.' 😳 It's amazing what you can do with a library card. 😀 #libraries #librarylife #librariesmatter

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6 years

Someone pointed me in the direction of Moby Dick because it contains one of *the* classic characters of American literature but I told them I preferred to read the old biographies of English playwrights, authors and television presenters. They tried to make me go to Ahab, I said

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6 years

Is it a film? No. A cartoon? No. An game, like Pokemon or something? Yeah kinda. Nobody could tell me what all the fuss was about. Then today a man came in to borrow some Lee Child books and he had his son with him. It said #Fortnite on his T-shirt.

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6 years

If you've got a better photograph of a furious cat attempting to fire a cannon at an unsuspecting dog, then I'd like to see it. #Archives #Photographic #Orkney #SaturdayMorning #Caturday

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1 year

We have an announcement. There is an unexpected ginger cat in the car park. He is not taking questions at this time.

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5 years

We are a Library and Archive that has had our fair share of famous visitors over the years. Writers. Poets. Musicians. Even royalty. But today we met a legend.

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2 years

Life as a Mobile Library driver in #Orkney can have its ups and downs. Often at the same time. 🌊 This was #BookyMcBookface our Mobile Library travelling back from Egilsay this afternoon.

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I saw the rain dirty valley, you saw Brigadoon. I saw the croissant, you saw the whole of Sassoon.

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3 years

We've had a very hungry caterpillar left behind in the library. If he belongs to you please collect him from the office because we can no longer afford to feed him. So far he's had one apple, two pears, three plums, four strawberries, five oranges. But he's still hungry...

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1 year

Breaking news. THERE IS A CAT IN THE CAR PARK. We'll bring you updates when we get them.

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6 years

'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a library in possession of a good Jane Austen biography, must be in want of some googly eyes.'

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4 years

Today is #NationalPenguinDay 🐧 Celebrate with a penguin made of Penguins 🐧

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1 month

Breaking news. THERE IS A BLACK AND WHITE CAT IN THE CAR PARK. 🐈‍⬛️ No further details at this time.

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4 years

How it started How it’s going

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6 years

@JeremyJHardy Sorry we've no vacancies at present.

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4 years

Our plans: 2020:

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4 years

One of the best things about being a library and being open again is this sound:

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5 years

It's a little known fact that back in the old days most Orkney men were actually giants and could easily lift a full size horse. #PhotographicArchives

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5 years

Shelf isolating.

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3 years

It's good to have the sun on our balls again.

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1 year

It's like Bladerunner around here.

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1 year

Orkney to get two electric ferries for three-year trial

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6 years

We have an announcement. Our balls are being jetwashed. <Message ends>

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5 years

This afternoon we have made the unusual scientific discovery that adding googly eyes to a biography of Marty Feldman actually makes it look more like Marty Feldman. 👀

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2 years

somebody has been messing around with our displays again and it's not okay

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6 years

It's #SaturdayMorning AND it's #NationalSandwichDay so we're having a tasty triple stacked Francis Bacon, Lettice and Tomato on white bread...

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4 years

His name is Bracken and he's a very big, very fluffy boy. He's visiting us today with Sally our Children's Librarian but we're hoping he decides to stay.

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6 years

All the leaves are brown And the sky is grey I've been for a walk Our balls are cold today. They'd be safe and warm If they were in L.A. #SaturdayMorning dreaming. On an #Orkney autumn day.

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Imagine living in #Orkney 5000 years ago and having the knowledge and skill to build the chambered cairn at Maeshowe. Built so that each year on the #WinterSolstice (if the sky is clear) the setting sun shines down a perfectly aligned passageway and illuminates the inner chamber.

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3 years

Possibly the greatest library view in the world. Sunrise from Stromness Library this morning. 😍 #Orkney

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4 years

It's cold and we have snow on our balls #SaturdayMorning #snow #Orkney

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7 years

A few years ago we built a frame for a knitted #ChristmasTree and asked our library knitting group to make squares for it. Soon there were handmade squares and decorations being contributed from borrowers, staff, and people across the community. And it's in our foyer right now!🎄

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3 years

You can always tell when The Stranglers have been in to return their books.

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8 months

This morning in our Book Return Box. Someone decided that 41 years was long enough...

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3 years

you can always tell when A-Ha have been in to return their books

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6 years

If this week was an old series of the hit U.S. sitcom Friends, today would be called The One Where We Got Mentioned In The Scottish Parliament.

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4 years

Anyone else need a cheery photo of some book trolleys right about now?

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2 years

and the cat's in the cradle and the

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1 year

Today is #NationalAuthorsDay so we've taken all the stuff we've got that's been written by authors and put them all on shelves for people to borrow for FREE. If it goes well, we might just make it a thing.

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6 years

Today is #NationalUnicornDay so Pooh and the gang have asked Eunice the #Orkney Unicorn to read them some of her favourite unicorn stories. She's a bit stern so even Tigger is sitting still. 🦄

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3 years

Today is #TolkienReadingDay so we're in the hobbit of letting folk boromir #Tolkien Books than usual. We're not being smaug but we're a library and it's good to shire. So come along and baggins yourself some books. 📚 (Apologies for the puns. We're thorinly ashamed of our elves)

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7 months

Today is #TolkienReadingDay and we're normally in the hobbit of letting people boromir #Tolkien books on this day because we're a library and it's good to shire. We're not being smaug about it but we do have a LOT of Tolkien books so come along and baggins some for your elf. 📚

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1 year

Of course no #Halloween would be complete without our annual carving of the Penguin 60s. 🎃🔪 We're up to our elbows here in juicy plots and seedy characters. 🎃📚

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9 days

Welcome to our new followers and thank you to all our old followers who encouraged our new followers to follow us. There are still great people on Twitter if you look hard enough. And cows. People really like cows.

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9 days

As our Instagram and Facebook following grows, our Twitter seems to slowly fall, bit by bit. Soon we'll be sitting here, on an island, on our own, talking to some cows, about how it used to be. So we tweet on, cows against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

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3 years

Unprecedented queue for the Mobile Library in Westray yesterday. 🐑🐑🐑

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5 years

Today is #RandomActsOfKindnessDay so we're giving people books and internet access and helping them find out stuff for free. Hold on a minute... #LibrariesMatter

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5 years

Things we WILL NOT be doing until further notice: Opening to the public. Giving people books. Things we WILL be doing until further notice: Washing our hands. Socially distancing. Supporting our online resources. Tweeting stuff we like. Drinking tea.

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6 years

There has been a revelation. The cleaning work at the front of the library is now complete and not only do our newly cleaned balls look amazing, but in the sunshine we have just realised that they contain hitherto undiscovered glittery bits.

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