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From the deserts of Sudan to the gardens of Japan. From Milan to Yucatan, or the wilds of Borneo to the vineyards of Bordeaux. Hit me with your library card. Hit me. Hit me.

Look who came wandering on to #BookyMcBookface in Quoyloo this morning. 🐈 At this point it feels like we're running a Mobile Library service for cats. 🐾

It's a grey, overcast day in #Orkney but we've just been sent a lovely sunny holiday photo of the bright white balls in Bexhill-on-sea! ❤️⚪⚪⚪

Good afternoon to everybody but ESPECIALLY to Cathy who came to visit recently all the way from Maine in the U.S. and brought us this beautiful handcrafted tote bag from L.L. Bean! Embroidered especially for #BookyMcBookface to carry on his travels! ❤️ #BoatAndTote #LoveLibraries

THERE IS A CAT IN THE CAR PARK 🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨 THERE IS A CAT IN THE CAR PARK 🐈

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-...

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! 🗿🕳🪨

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The queue for the Mobile Library yesterday 🐈‍⬛️🐈

Today is #NationalKittenDay but we have no cats.

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

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 many best-selling thriller novels, followed by a live Q&A that the online audience are invited to 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-... to find out more and to hear poems about the various flowers. 🌼

Mordor on the Orient Express

Last month our #LEGO display cases were a breath of fresh air, filled with wild and wonderful LEGO models for our #OrkneyLibraryLego GREAT OUTDOORS theme! 🗿🌴⛰️🌄 All made by library users using our #Lego collection. Thanks to everyone who made us a model! ❤️ Our next theme is A SUMMER OF SPORTS! ⚽️🎾🚴‍♂️

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Someone just asked us which book ended with the best cliffhanger so we told them it was definitely #InternationalJokeDay

Today is #NationalCameraDay so here is a very old and unusual item from our Photographic Archive. It's a stereoscopic card featuring St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall, and it was created by C. Hubbard in the 1860s, which makes it one of the earliest known photographs of #Orkney.