Orkney Library

Happy #SaturdayMorning everyone. This week we would like to introduce our lovely *checks notes* KIDNEY VETCH. ❤️ Also known as woundwort, this is one of the flowers planted in our Coastal Habitat raised bed, as part of our Interactive Flora Trail. 🌼🏵 orkneylibrary.org.uk/interactive-or…

For the last couple of weeks our #LEGO display cases have scored some record-breaking results with our superbly sporty #OrkneyLibraryLego SUMMER OF SPORTS theme! ⚽️🎾🚴‍♂️ All made by library users using our #Lego collection. ❤️ Our next theme is ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS! 🗿🕳🪨

When two readers spot the same book at the same time

This is what manifesting looks like

The queue for the Mobile Library yesterday 🐈‍⬛️🐈

@lbfroid A Tail of Two Cities

@OrkneyLibrary Waiting for the only copy of The Brothers Karameowtsov? The Count of Meownte Cristo? Crime and Purrnishment?

@Tim_Ward_birder Yes

@OrkneyLibrary Is that the inside of Booky Mcbookface?

@sharlewis58 This is ideal

@OrkneyLibrary For you

Today is #NationalKittenDay but we have no cats.

@Disinvoltura Purrfect

@OrkneyLibrary There you go

@chopper32 Don't know but we're hooked

@OrkneyLibrary Is that the legitimate version, or is it a pirate copy?

We may have just found the greatest pop-up book of all time

To join in the online session just sign up for FREE via the registration link below. Date: Tuesday, 21st July 2026 Time: 10am (UK time) bolinda.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Our friends at @BorrowBox are hosting an exclusive online event with author David Baldacci on the 21st of July - and you are all invited! The award-winning author will be discussing his best-selling thrillers, followed by a live Q&A that the online audience can join in with. 👇

This is your occasional reminder that Agatha Christie wasn't just the bestselling crime writer of all time but also she had a surfboard called Fred

Happy 86th Birthday to Sir Ringo Starr, who was born on the 7th July 1940! 🥳 We don't know if Ringo ever visited #Orkney (though Paul McCartney has) but #FunFact DID YOU KNOW that Ringo's great-grandfather was a merchant seaman from #Shetland who moved to Liverpool around 1870?

Some incredible #WorldCup themed #Lego emerging from our Lego table ❤️

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We would like to interrupt your #SaturdayMorning doomscrolling to show you our beautiful Viper's Bugloss ❤️ Planted last year as part of our Interactive Flora Trail. Go to our website at: orkneylibrary.org.uk/interactive-or… to find out more and to hear poems about the various flowers. 🌼

Mordor on the Orient Express