Reposted by ReneeRTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 26/09/2026Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years. New figures show that almost 16 million visits were made to Ireland's libraries in 2025, compared with nearly 14 million in 2023rte.iePublic library visits increased by two million nationwideVisits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years, new figures show as National Public Libraries Open Day takes place nationwide. 221482384
Renee @saoghalbeag.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I’m hiring a Senior Library Assistant to manage day to day activities at Stornoway Library 👉 myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/com... It’s a good time to join us - guaranteed there won’t be a dull moment! 110
Renee @saoghalbeag.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Closes tomorrow - librarian vacancy in the Western Isles #libraryjobs #librarian 000
Renee @saoghalbeag.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Closing this Thursday! Librarian job in the Western Isles👇 012
Renee @saoghalbeag.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Why is our profession so underrated? So many I encounter have solidified opinions about library services - I’ve just learned another manager has their non-library staff writing a librarian job description so they can ambush me with it. 121
Renee @saoghalbeag.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Closing next week - come be a librarian in the Outer Hebrides 🦈 000
Reposted by ReneeRae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Please read..... #BookSky 310110453762
Renee @saoghalbeag.bsky.social · 31/07/2026If you’re a librarian dreaming of adventure, come work with us in Na h-Eileanan Siar! It’s a temp post but opportunities like this are about as likely as Gandalf actually knocking on your door. Closes Aug 13 👉 myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/com... #libraryjobs #librarianmyjobscotland.gov.ukSenior Librarian, Stornoway Library (0466) - FIXED TERM - CNS06406 | Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | myjobscotlandView details and apply for this community learning & development role in with Comhairle nan Eilean Siar on myjobscotland 023
Reposted by ReneeJanel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 20/07/20261996: can't use the internet without your phone 2010: the internet stretches before you like the vast expanse of a new frontier. You dance through it, unhindered. Unburdened. You have never heard of 2-factor authentication. 2026: can't use the internet without your phone 2244401179
Renee @saoghalbeag.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Closing today! myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/com... #libraryjobs #climatejobs #greenlibraries #ecojobs #greenjobsmyjobscotland.gov.ukSenior Library Assistant - Green Library Hub (2 Posts) - FIXED TERM - CNS06354 | Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | myjobscotlandView details and apply for this arts / museums / libraries role in with Comhairle nan Eilean Siar on myjobscotland 000
Renee @saoghalbeag.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Once had an irate man yell at me because I refused to let him offload a ute load of water and insect damaged paperbacks onto the floor of our library staff office 🤦♀️ 010
Renee @saoghalbeag.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Beach hopping on an taobh siar, trying to find a rock I used to visit when I lived here in my 20s (and ‘be all emo’ according to my offspring). No luck but discovered 300 types of blue 050
Reposted by ReneeThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 09/05/2026🎶Absolutely amazing scenes in Wales as Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth - set to be Wales's first pro-independence first minister - is interrupted by an impromptu rendition of the Welsh national anthem 29417171
Reposted by ReneeLiam Hogan @liamhogan.bsky.social · 04/10/2024Doris Lessing: “A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.” 4518167
Renee @saoghalbeag.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Tórshavn public library 🇫🇴 Always thrilled to find libraries making good use of lots of small rooms. Obsessed with their art library section - Edinburgh and Leeds have this but it’s def inspired me to see it working in a smaller space #libraries #publiclibraries #faroes 030
Renee @saoghalbeag.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Tórshavn to Kirkjubøur 🇫🇴 5 hour round trip* to see the medieval cathedral ruin of St Magnus, even older St Olav’s still in use, bypassing the open air meeting space used during the Faroes National Movement. *no bus on Sunday caps off my lack of research for this trip 051
Renee @saoghalbeag.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Tha e breagha ☀️ a day in Faroese history with skeletons and sheep 000
Renee @saoghalbeag.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Am staying on in Tórshavn after the Islands Book Trust conf without a plan. So far so good-lift from Runavik to airbnb in Undir Ryggi old town. Cottage c14th & in the official guidebook! If anyone wants to join me in building a few of these in Lewis I’m keen-power shower & underfloor heating! 010
Renee @saoghalbeag.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Viðareiði Kirkja 🇫🇴 Church on a cliff in the northernmost village in Faroe. 110
Renee @saoghalbeag.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Edinburgh wandering. Naturally I bumped into my neighbour from Stornoway bc that’s the rule when away from the islands. Omw to the launch of FEMINIST LIBRARIANSHIP 💪 at @natlibscot.bsky.social 020
Renee @saoghalbeag.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Reminded how fortunate I am to have the job that I have and live where I live ❤️ 130
Renee @saoghalbeag.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Had an author engage multiple staff in 3 days of emails just so they could punchline that they would NOT visit our library service because they’d had to invite themselves* *They were invited 15 months ago, strung us along for months then last minute told us they changed their mindsmedia.tenor.coma man with a mullet and a mustache is wearing a wig and making a funny face .ALT: a man with a mullet and a mustache is wearing a wig and making a funny face . 010
Reposted by ReneeTerri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 21/02/2026"These centuries-old connections between language and the environment challenge dominant views of how best to protect habitats. Scottish Gaelic’s vitality as a living language would surely suffer if fishing were to be curtailed, and much of the knowledge bound up in it...would be lost too." 05418
Reposted by ReneeMylee Joseph @mylee.bsky.social · 09/01/2026#Libraries believe in a people-centred Internet, as both a guarantee of rights and an enabler of development. Upholding the fundamental rights of access to information and knowledge is a starting point. Via @ifla.orgifla.org 031
Renee @saoghalbeag.bsky.social · 04/01/2026From nope to yes lol. Not bad for a dog who was born in Queensland and living in the subtropics until a month ago ❤️ #outerhebrides #scottishislands #snowday 052
Renee @saoghalbeag.bsky.social · 09/10/2025What a rubbish week. I don’t understand people. Here’s a photo of a wallaby joey in my mum’s backyard to fix the universe. 020
Reposted by ReneeRichard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 29/09/2025This is a very welcome development indeed IF the recurrent costs of funding school librarians is fully budgeted. ‘A pile of books is no more a library than a crowd of soldiers is an army’ to quote Gabriel Naudé who figured this out … 400 years ago… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comRachel Reeves pledges a library in every primary school in EnglandExclusive: Chancellor also set to unveil plans to get young people back into work in party conference speech 17627
Renee @saoghalbeag.bsky.social · 28/09/2025No clue where I am but a’ chaora mhòr have been here before me 🐑 000
Renee @saoghalbeag.bsky.social · 26/09/2025A’ dol dhachaigh / going home and what a day for it. For future reference there is time between bus & ferry for Cult coffee & Ullapool bookshop, bringing the holiday book count to 6 📚 #islandlife #hebrides #librarianlife #reader #booklover 010
Reposted by ReneeSeachdain na Gàidhlig (World Gaelic Week) @sngaidhlig.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Am bu chaomh leibh tachartas a chur air dòigh ann an 2025? Tha sgeama nan Tabhartasan Beaga a-nis fosgailte. Le taic o Bhòrd na Gàidhlig, gheibhear suas ri £500 gus tachartas a tha a’ comharrachadh na Gàidhlig a chur air dòigh. seachdainnagaidhlig.scot/seachdain-na... 073
Reposted by ReneeSeachdain na Gàidhlig (World Gaelic Week) @sngaidhlig.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Want to host an event in 2026? Our Small Grants are open now. Supported by Bòrd na Gàidhlig, our grants offer up to £500—to help you put on an event that celebrates the Gaelic language. We have two information sessions coming up at 7pm on Wed 8 Oct & Thurs 23 Oct—book a session here: buff.ly/vYQ9PA1 021
Renee @saoghalbeag.bsky.social · 24/09/2025In Munich airport and the random woman sitting beside me is a former Leòdhasach. Because of course. #islandlife 020
Renee @saoghalbeag.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Taking a break from paint and plaster and statistical returns to squeeze the last few drops of August out of the year and remind myself that it wasn’t that long ago I was wishing and hoping for this life ❤️ 010
Reposted by Reneevictoriarend.bsky.social @victoriarend.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Calling all the UK public library workers! 📚 Seeking participants for UCL MA Library and Information Studies research project #LibraryScience #Libraries #LibraryLife #LIS #LibraryTwitter #LibTech #UCL #EDI #Librarians #LibraryStaff #CulturalHeritage #PublicLibraries #Research 178
Renee @saoghalbeag.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Page 31 and already enraged. Why is English (which spreads like the plague) so threatened by other languages? 010
Reposted by ReneeNora J. Williams @norajw.bsky.social · 06/07/2025As an immigrant to this country, it is *already the case* that you cannot access public funds (incl. disability benefits) at any point up to gaining indefinite leave to remain. For me, that was more than ten years of student & spouse visas, healthcare surcharges, a Life in the UK test, etc 11330109
