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📚Western Isles Libraries 📍Stornoway, Tarbert, Lionacleit & Castlebay 🚐 Lexy (Lewis/Harris) & Lachaidh (N/S Uist) 🛜 www.wilibraries.org.uk
Our 2025 programme is now OPEN for bookings!
📆 Visit our online programme: www.wilibraries.org.uk/events&news
✅ All events are FREE. Bookings via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/western-is...
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It was a busy weekend at Stornoway Library with the launch Rory & the Balloon Bicycles, the 2nd book in the #RoryandtheSnackDragons & a visitor from Nottinghamshire libraries, researching her grandfather who was based in Lewis after WW2 #SaturdayLibrarian #libraries #authors #WesternIsles
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It’s Mental Health Awareness Week & this year’s theme is “Community”
Libraries are at the heart ❤️ of our communities. Visit your local branch to find out all they can offer 📚
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#libraries #MentalHealth #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek #MentalHealthAwareness #community #wellbeing
✨This Wednesday ✨
Join Roderick G Maclean to launch the English version of his book “Never To Return: Convoys to Russia in the Second World War.” In conversation with Coinneach MacIver.
⏰5:30pm, Wed 23rd April
📍Stornoway Library
🎟Bookings:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Calling All Gaelic Students! Join Western Isles Libraries for a unique summer experience!
We’re offering TWO placements through the Comhairle nan Eilean Siar Gaelic Student Placement Scheme 2025 in Liniclete & Stornoway.
Deadline 21st April:
www.cne-siar.gov.uk/gd/leisure-s...
A’ gairm air oileanach Gàidhlig! Thig còmhla ri Seirbheis Leabharlainn nan Eilean Siar airson cothrom samhraidh gun samhail! Tha sinn air bhioran dà àite-obrach a thabhann tro Sgeama Greis Gnìomhachais Oileanaich Comhairle nan Eilean Siar 2025!
📍Lìonacleit & Steòrnabhagh
📅 Diluain 21d Giblean
Exciting (fully funded) PhD 📢 ! Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with Keele (me!) and the British Library. Beyond the Burger: USA Food Stories in the British Library’s Oral History and Food Industry Literature Collections
www.keele.ac.uk/study/postgr... (see “advert and details” for full info)
Famous 🙌
With our new besties from the Reading Schools team at the @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social
#readingschools #westernisles #scottishbooktrust #reading #literacy #outerhebrides #libraries #community #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #librariesrock
Thank you for coming! We loved having you guys visit - the week is still sinking in but so much excitement and passion for libraries 💕 we could not have wished for a better outcome! Except perhaps…
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A fantastic morning. So much library love ❤️ followed by a big day with the @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social providing professional learning for teachers & visiting Sgoil a Bhac to encourage them as they start their Reading Schools journey. Looking forward to more great library partnerships 🎉
18.03.2025 16:11 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Staff had training today & one of the sessions was social media so we feel obliged to tell you we also have tikkytok.
We’re @wilibraries
#libraries
#librarysocials
#libraryadvocacy
All set up for tomorrow’s literacy, reading & Gaelic discussions with the @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social (& Scotland’s Makar if he made the ferry 🙏) in Stornoway. With thanks to the Scottish Library & Info Council SLIF fund 📚
#literacy #reading #Gaelic #libraries #community #Bookbug #westernisles
We have been quiet on here lately because we are busy planning next week’s Islands’ Literacy Symposium. We’re excited to be bringing so many local literacy champions together & to be fuelling discussions with this incredible local business 🥰 #OnBoardHebrides #literacy
10.03.2025 11:26 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0After visiting Castlebay, Bookbug made his way to Stornoway by hitching a lift on the Mobile Library.
We hope you enjoyed Bookbugs tour for Seachdain ma Gàidhlig!
👋 Cheerio = tìoraidh
Às deidh dha tadhal air Bàgh a’ Chaisteil, tha Bookbug a’ dèanamh a shlighe air ais a Steòrnabhagh le lioft ann am bhan an leabharlainn.
Tha sinn an dòchas gun do chòrd an turas aige ribh.
👋 Tioraidh = Cheerio/goodbye
🏴 Bookbug in Uist
As Bookbug moves from island to island, he’s enjoying all the Gaelic phrases along the way! Today’s phrase is:
⛴ Tha an t-aiseag a’ seòladh = The ferry is sailing
#SeachdainNaGaidhlig #BuildingConnections #GaelicCulture #isleofuist #Libraries #Bookbug
Bookbug ann an Uibhist
Mar a bhios Bookbug a’ gluasad bho eilean gu eilean, tha na h-abairtean Gàidhlig a’ còrdadh ris air an t-slighe! Is e abairt an latha an-diugh:
⛴ Tha an t-aiseag a’ seòladh = The ferry is sailing
#seachdainnagaidhlig #leabharlainnnaneileansiar #gaidhlig
🚗💨 Bookbug’s First Stop: Na Hearradh // Isle of Harris
On his journey across the Western Isles, Bookbug is heading to the Harris library today!
How about we learn a Gaelic phrase together?
👋 Ciamar a tha thu? = How are you?
🚗💨 A’ chiad tadhal aig Bookbug: Na Hearradh. Air a thuras air feadh nan Eilean Siar, tha Bookbug a' dèanamh air leabharlann na Hearadh an-diugh!
Dè mu dheidhinn gun ionnsaich sinn abairt Ghàidhlig còmhla?
👋 Ciamar a tha thu? = Ciamar a tha thu?
#Gàidhlig #BookBug #NaHearradh #SeachdainnaGàidhlig
Seachdain na Gaidhlig - Bookbug's Adventure 🌟
Bookbug’s adventure across the Western Isles starts today, and he’s excited to connect with all of you! Learn some Gaelic words as we travel from Lewis to the other libraries!
📚 Leabhar = Book
📖 Leugh = Read
Where will Bookbug visit next?
🌟 Seachdain na Gaidhlig - Cuairt dànachd aig Bookbug 🌟
Sa chiad dol a-mach, ionnsaichidh sinn beagan fhaclan Gàidhlig a chuidicheas sinn, agus sinn a’ tadhal air na leabharlannan eile
📚 Leabhar = Book
📖 Leughadh = Reading
Càite an ath thuras a bhios Bookbug a’ tadhal?
✅This is a free event thanks to the Scottish Government Public Library Improvement Fund & support from The Scottish Library & Information Council
24.02.2025 12:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🤛 An opportunity for literacy champions to come together to form new partnerships. There will be a showcase of local literacy initiatives & panel on ‘Building a Gaelic Reading Culture’ chaired by Agnes Rennie.
Join the conversation on how Gaelic can continue to shape our island literacy landscape.
✨ World Gaelic Week ✨
📚 We’re excited to announce our upcoming Islands Literacy Symposium with the Scottish Book Trust & Scotland’s Makar, Peter Mackay
📅 Tues 18/3, 9-10.30am
📍 Stornoway Town Hall
🥐 Breakfast by OnBoard Hebrides
🎟️ Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1216611891...
📸 John Maher
A bathymetrical chart of Loch Morar, showing the depth of the water in the loch.
🌊✨ It's #MapMonsterMonday, and today we're diving into the depths of Loch Morar – the deepest loch in the UK!
Did you know it's home to its very own resident monster, Mòrag? 🐉 Sighted over 30 times, she's a legend in her own right.
It’s lovely 🥰 currently home to Harris Tweed Authority & Employability but we can dream!
17.02.2025 18:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We have a Carnegie too 💕 in Stornoway but sadly no longer in use as a public library
#CarnegieLibrary
#beautifullibraries
💕 Love Libraries 💕
Many thanks to MP Torcuil Crichton & team for dropping by Stornoway Library to discover some gems in our Gaelic & Local History Collections.
We’re delighted Finlay has joined the library team as Gaelic & Outreach Librarian 📚
#LoveLibraries #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #LocalHistory
In case you needed an excuse to visit 💕
And if that’s not enough, there will be tea & cake at Stornoway & Lionacleit libraries Friday 🧁
#LoveLibraries #leabharlainnnaneileansiar #westernisleslibraries #librariesrock #libraryromance #lovetoread
