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It's 80 years ago to the day that the S.S. Politician ran aground on the island of Eriskay, inspiring Compton Mackenzie to write his classic novel Whisky Galore.It reminds us
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Today is #MobileLibrariesDay which is an annual celebration of Mobile Library services across Scotland. We thought this was a good day to take a quick look back at the Mobile
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Tomorrow is #RLSDay which marks the birthday of the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson. It's also a good day to remember that it is NOT actually his birthday because he
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If you walk along Junction Road to Orkney Library & Archive this morning you can't get in because we're closed (). But if you came here 150 years ago you
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