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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Systems & Learning Assistant Louise has a very specific @richardcoles.bsky.social memory of telling him how Don't Leave Me This Way is the best song ever, when he came to visit us 10 years ago! (Time to revisit, surely!)

Louise holds a laminate which reads Songs from the Soundtrack of my Life - Don't Leave me This way the communards. There is a tee shirt which reads Keep Calm and Don't Leave Me This Way

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You can pop into the library today and tomorrow to share a song from the soundtrack of your life too. Here Adult Services Librarian Marghie suggests Tod Rundgren Hello Its me. It was the second vinyl she ever bought!

Marghie stands by our flipchart of suggested songs. She holds a laminate which reads Songs from the Soundtrack of my Life - Hello it's me by Tod Rudgren

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We unveiled Tammie Stories today, our new Mobile Library Van! May she have many happy trails and make many readers happy! www.shetland.gov.uk/news/article...

A groups of cheerful people stand outside the back of a brightly colour Mobile Library Van

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Do you like Tim Sullivan's series featuring the brilliantly persistent DS George Cross? We have multi-user copies on the eAudio on the Libby app, as well as eBook copies and good old paper and ink copies too! Keep your eyes peeled as we may just have an event coming up soon with Tim!

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Alex Garrick-Wright @agarrickwright.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Good to see a classic @fightingfantasy.bsky.social as the centrepiece of @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social's summer display! Creature of Havoc too, what a belter.

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It is the second week of the summer holidays here and already we have schools of fish swimming in our windows. There's lots to do in the Library this summer for young people. You can join in with our Summer Reading Challenge and pop in to find out more!

Colourful handmade fish hang down from a window

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

What was your Easter reading? Librarian Louise loved The Full Moon Coffee Shop, by Mai Mochizuki - so lightsome and enjoyable to enjoy over the long weekend Aside, is there a term for the fantastic Cat Fiction genre? shetland.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...

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The Full Moon Coffee Shop / Mai Mochizuki ; translated by Jesse Kirkwood.

Under a glittering full moon, a Kyoto coffee shop with no fixed location or hours appears only where and when it's needed. It's run by talking cats serving the finest teas and coffees, delicious ...

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

We have two ways to print your documents at the Library - our Wifi Printer is super for a few pages in mono only. You can connect to this via your mobile device. Our public computer printers produce much higher quality prints for multiple sheets. Please note we only accept cash for print payment.

wifi printing
prints up to 4 sheets
15p per side black and white only
good for boarding passes or postage lables
print direct from files downloaed on your phone
not suited to photos or screen shots

computer pritners
prints multiple sheets
higher quality print outs
b&w 15p per side colour 30p per side
log onto library computers to use
ensure you bring your relevant passwords for emails

Staff might advise you on the best method for printing

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

We were delighted to get a visit from @dunnjons.bsky.social today who presented SuperSheltie with a copy of his new book, Butterflies, for the library! What a lovely new addition to the library for #WorldBookDay Thank you Jon!

Jon Dunn is seated in the library. Super Sheltie looks on. Jon holds his new book Butterflies

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Their card must still be in the post 🙄

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

This is your annual reminder to shift your car off the Up Helly Aa route by 2pm lest it be towed away for ceremonial burning. 🙂🔥

Big yellow road sign saying ‘Attention, UP HELLY AA, Roads closed 4pm-9pm, No parking from 2pm.’

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Annually, on the last Tuesday in January- if you’re late for work and use the excuse “a bunch of Vikings & a longship were holding up traffic” it is perfectly acceptable. 😉 🔥 Wishing Guizer Jarl Lynden Nicolson, his squad and all a brilliant Up Helly Aa 2026! 🔥 #uphellyaa #vikings #lerwick

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

We’ve totted up our ‘most borrowed’ lists for 2025 and guess what, local favourite Jen Hadfield out-loaned @richardosman1.bsky.social for top book! Great loans for Malachy Tallack and Marianne Brown too. We love Richard too of course! Read more on our website: www.shetland.gov.uk/libraries/ne...

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News and Events – Shetland Islands Council

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

WELL! This series of #TheTraitors has certainly got us on the edge of our seats (and often arguing with the TV screen!) No spoilers here, but if you would like to read Harriet’s published work- they are available to request from the Library!

Harriet Tyce- contestant on BBC’s The Traitors and the books she’s written.

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

More snow! It’s been quite a week of it, but the Library as always is a warm cosy haven 🙂❤️❄️☃️

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

We are open today until 8pm but our Reminiscing session and Lego hour are cancelled. we’re sorry for the inconvenience as weather disruptions continue.

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

📖Staff Top Reads 2025 - the managers Marghie - That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz, Malachy Tallack Chloe - Nightbitch, Rachel Yoder Nicola - The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt Catherine - The Let Them Theory, Mel Robbins Karen - Lee Child's One Shot on audio Not a Christmassy bunch, are they? 🙂

Five smiling people in a library, holding books.

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

...One Night in the Zoo - Judith Kerr 🦈Shark in the Park on a Windy Day - Nick Sharratt 🔵The Button Book - Sally Nicholls and Bethan Woollvin The Whales on the bus - Katrin Charman, Nick Sharratt 🦕There's a dinosaur in your book - Tom Fletcher 🧸Where’s My Teddy - Jez Alborough So cosy - Lerryn Korda

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

...My Pet Star - Corrinne Averiss This Rock is Mine! - Kaye Umansky Gigantic- Rob Biddulph Gustavo the Shy Ghost - Flavia Z. Drago 🤖No Bot the Robot with no Bottom - Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet One Fox: A counting book thriller - Kate Read 🚜Goodnight Tractor - Michelle Robinson and Nick East ...

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

📖Shetland Library Staff Top Reads 2025 - BOOKBUG EDITION! @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social Our Bookbug Leaders picked favourite books they read at sessions this year. There's LOTs of them! 🚘Car, Car, Truck, Jeep - Katrina Charman and Nick Sharratt 🌜Let's go into Space - Petr Horacek...

Four smiling people holding books and yellow Bookbug dolls with a capiton of 'Shetland Library Staff - top reads 2025'

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

and… Frankenstein / Mary Shelley The Godfather / Mario Puzo Siddhartha / Herman Hesse All the Colours of the Dark / Chris Whitaker The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill / Craig Robertson Finding Hildasay / Christian Lewis The Boy on the Bridge / M R Carey

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

📖 Top Reads 2025📚 MOBILE & HOME DELIVERY TEAM Our van services bring the library to customers the length and breadth of Shetland. Their own favourites are *quite* varied and include … Tell Me Everything/ Elizabeth Strout The Pumpkin Spice Café/ Laurie Gilmore The Colour of Money/ Terry Pratchett…

Four smiling people holding a variety of books

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

And... The Gates of Gaza, by Amir Tibbon The Golden Mole by Katharine Rundell The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins The Man Who Died by Antti Tuomainen The Peepshow: Murder at 10 Rillington Place by Kate Summerscale The Princess Bride by William Goldman Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

And... From Scenes Like These by Gordon Williams Her One Moment by Lianne Moriarty Ootlin: A memoir by Jenni Fagan Prey by Yrsa Sugurdardottir Rejection by Tony Tulathimute Shy Creatures by Claire Chambers Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout The Beautiful Atlantic Waltz by Malachy Tallack...

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

📚Staff Top Reads of 2025📖 First up it's the Processing team who have the best job - being the first to see the new books that come in! They had a long list... Blurb Your Enthusiasm by Louise Willder Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut Butter by Asako Yuzuki Catch 22, by Joseph Heller...

Four people in a library holding up books.

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Language is indeed a rich and complex thing! ‘Incomers’ welcome - even Orcadians 🙂😉

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

It's Mobile Libraries Day! #MobileLibrariesDay2025 Today we celebrate the vital library services on wheels throughout Scotland. Sadly today's weather means Leona can't get out west, but we will have the big van outside HQ this morning, if anyone would like to take a look inside!

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Also, this was the quickest finished build we had. Made by one of our younger members about 4 minutes into the session! And a very lovely interpretation of Friendship it is too.

two lego figures stand on a green baseboard in front on one another holding hands Beside them is a pink heart and a huge flame.

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Our Lego Club took the theme of Friendship for @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social #BookWeekScotland and did an absolutely sterling job. Thanks for all the ways you built and represented friendship, gang!

two lego figures stand on a green baseboard in front on one another holding hands Beside them is a pink heart and a huge glame.

many mini figures stand on a green and grey baseboard. The 6 figures in the foreground are in pairs and appear to be dancing. watching them is a line of mini-figures hand in and two skeleton horses

A lego room for friends. a green base board with multicoloured brick walls. Several mini figs are enjoying games including building a minecraft tree

Another special building for making friends in. There is an escape room with treasure, a zip wire and horse rides in the garden

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

4pm today. What we love about the new dark afternoons is how the Library is a shining beacon of welcome on Lower Hillhead 🙂❤️

Two storey building with many windows lit up against a twilight sky.

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

When you say Wagner Wallpaper Strippers… has he gone into the Orkney interior decorating business since the X Factor? What a spectacular fall from grace.

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a blurry picture of a woman blowing a kiss .

Alt: Wagner, former X Factor contestant, now removing wallpaper in Orkney.

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Where better! We've been basking in your reflected glory ever since 🙂

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Mark Steel last night and 'Shetland' tonight. We love it when the media revolves around us and we are looking forward to stepping into the village of Lunniswick. @anncleeves.bsky.social really started something when she launched 'Raven Black' here almost 20 years ago. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC One - Shetland, Series 10, Episode 1

The body of an elderly woman is found in the remote village of Lunniswick.

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Ha ha, the Library got a few mentions as in fact did @orkneylibrary.bsky.social If you missed it you can now listen again at the link below.

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Please do ask your local library to get in all the books you love. If you’re a writer to, remember to register for PLR.

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

These are as tasty as they look! This is the second time in a week our staff have received beautiful homegrown tomatoes from a cusomer. How lucky are we? Library folks, what’s the nicest thing a kind customer has brought for your staff?

a plastic punnet of home grown tomatoes of all sizes and autumnal colours

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

You are dead to us Jimmy Perez, you traitor. And sassermaet rules!

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

NEW ON LIBBY From Pancakes to Perez - here is a new selection of eBooks and eAudio on our Libby App. If you haven't used our apps before, ask for a quick demo next time you're in the library!

Graphic showing newest additions to Shetland Library's Libby App with screenshots of book covers.
Ebooks
The Strawberry Patch Pancake House by Laurie Gilmore
Midnight Conspiracy by David Leadbetter
The Perfect Crime by Vaseem Khan
The Housemaid's Secret - by Frieda McFadden
The Things We Leave Unfinished, by Rebecca Yarros

eBook
His Encore, Her Ecstasy by Trisha Fuentes
The Lord of the Butterflies, by Andrea Gibson
The Raven Banner by Tim Hodkinson
The Killing Stones, by Ann Cleeves

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Yesterday was #NationalPlaylistDay celebrating @playlistforlife.bsky.social the power of music on memory. We asked for suggestions & had a lovely day sharing memories. Here is our playlist! Thanks to all of our customers and staff who added suggestions open.spotify.com/playlist/4oD...

A round table has an ipad in the centre playing Bruce Springsteen’s Thunder Road. there are lots of resources for Playlist for life a music & dementia charity. there is a bluetooth speaker and a pair of headphones

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Hey £69.99 was a fortune back then!

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Oh, well spotted. Can’t remember them!

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

LOOK! Our vintage ‘club books’ are now in stock for you to browse. Fabulous nostalgia - 1970s, 1980s and even a 1990s one (hey, that was just yesterday!) Find them in our reference section 🙂

Front covers of Kay’s, Janet Frazer, Swallow and Grattan home shopping catalogues.

Vintage early 80s kitchen gadgets including a hostess trolley

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Calling all Shetland book groups! Nominate books to add to our Book Group sets. 📚 A favourite book your group has loved, or 📚 A book you’d love to read together This year’s Book Week Scotland theme is friendship 💞 What's more special than sharing a great read with friends? Comment or message us 📖🌟

Four young library staff smiling and holding books, seated at at table, library shelves of books behind.

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

LOOK at aa wir owls and puffins! It’s been a fabulous library summer and it’s not over yet! 🙂❤️😎

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Great to see you back Matthew. The trees are *very* baby - it’ll be a long time before there’s a Library woods 🙂

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Apparently it’s International Cat Day (when is it not?) and what do you know, we got a visit from Tommy, Lerwick’s celebrity moggie. We’ve told him he’s not allowed in but hey, he’s a cat…

Black and white tabby cat on a colourful bench beside a display of paper owls made by children.

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