Shetland Library

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.

OH!!! that’s so sweet!

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

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?

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

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

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!

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

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...

Hey £69.99 was a fortune back then!

Oh, well spotted. Can’t remember them!

Er, what? 🙂

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

Vintage early 80s kitchen gadgets including a hostess trolley

Women’s 1970s ‘foundation garments’

1980s women’s suits and dresses

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 🙂

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

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 📖🌟

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

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

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

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…

MSP calls for cable damage explanation as wait for internet could stretch into next week HUNDREDS of customers may have to wait until the start of next week for their internet to return after a subsea cable was damaged over the weekend. The Shefa-2...

It's a fraught time for many as the big Internet outage drags on. Thankfully our WiFi is working - while visiting to use it, do borrow books, DVDs and jigsaws so you can really enjoy your retro internet-free evenings at home... 😀
www.shetnews.co.uk/2025/07/28/msp-calls-cable-damage-explanation/

P.S. lots of other libraries DO offer visitor memberships, so be sure to ask when you are on your holidays.

Thank you! Have you been yet?

Speech bubble saying "On a month long stay in Lerwick, I read the library had a visitor’s membership! I went round to see if this was too good to be true. The incredibly welcoming and helpful staff issued me a card on the spot. They helped me install the eBook app and I also borrowed books about the Shetland Islands’ history, traditions and traditional handcrafts. I’m a world traveller. I have never found another library willing to allow me to borrow their books. Thank you for extending your services to travellers. Thank you for all being so wonderfully kind and helpful."

We got a lovely email from one of our USA visitors. 🙂
A good time to remind everyone we offer temporary memberships if you are only in Shetland for a short time - and that we have lovely staff!.

michael pedersen hollie mcnish meet Super Sheltie - held by hollie - and marghie our librarian

We were delighted to have @michaelpedersen.bsky.social and @holliemcnish.bsky.social pop in to see us! #SuperSheltie is demonstrating with his wee hooves the amount of delight #ThisMuch

Book launch VOD Shetland's Abandoned Crofthouses Photos and short poems in Shaetlan with English versions

Book launch
Vod: Shetland’s Abandoned Crofthouses
by Christine De Luca
29 July @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social – free

Launching Christine De Luca’s latest book, featuring photos & short poems in Shaetlan with English versions
shetland.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...

Yes we do 😎

a herring gull looks displeased with the selection of sale books on the trolley outside Shetland library

Is there nothing on the trolley that takes your fancy, sir?

Collectors card with 12 activities: 1. Read to someone (or a pet) 2. Play a board game or Lego 3. Read a graphic novel 4. Read a non-fiction book 5. Read a magazine 6. Do a wordsearch or crossword 7. Enter our Shetland Summer comp 8. Enter our colouring comp 9. Read outdoors 10. Recommended a book to a friend 11. Listen to an audiobook 12. Share a joke!

We designed our own Summer Reading Challenge this year and it includes *extra stamps* for completing activities. Feel free to play along!

Shetland Library bag with maps and walking guide books. On grass, with sea and cliffs behind.

Scorchio! It's been at least 19C all weekend up here, believe us that's hot for us!
Remember the Library has lots of maps and guides to borrow if you are out and about. More important, don't forget the sun cream!

The Salt Path is one of our most popular books. There's a social media rush to condemn Raynor Winn on the back of one Observer article, which is the way these things roll. Her own statement is worth a read to get beyond the soundbites. The story will always be interesting.
www.raynorwinn.co.uk

Cover of A Thousand Feasts - gold Autumn leaves on a brown cover

Hurrah! We have reached over 1.000 followers and we are celebrating with A Thousand Feasts by the lovely @nigelslater.bsky.social
This book is part of our #BigTastyRead promo - 'using food to inspire reading' 🙂🍪🍕
More info here: readingagency.org.uk/get-reading/...

Whoa - 999! Might be 1,000 when we wake up 🙂

No sooner said than done, says our dashing equine superhero.
#SuperSheltie

Three Enid Blyton Secret Seven books.

Seven, Seven… *Seven* more followers required to get us to 1,000! What should we do to get us over the line…time for a #SuperSheltie stunt perhaps? 🙂7️⃣👍

Scribbled list of ingredients, perhaps a shopping list, with a lot of technical notes and arrows underneath, e.g, Cubeside +Hexheight; offset 2nd layer.

Found in a library book - we are very intrigued by the ‘method’ for this…recipe? We’ve heard of deconstructed dishes but this appears to be *constructing* something very technical with mince…🙂