tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69743669181260080342024-02-19T09:42:01.096+00:00Stromness LibraryStromness Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10652868072949594575noreply@blogger.comBlogger278125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974366918126008034.post-72731510536913625102015-10-15T15:51:00.000+01:002015-10-15T15:51:01.347+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last Thursday we were gifted this lovely Orkney Writers/Story tellers map which is now hanging in the Junior section of the library. It was part of a project funded by the Clore Duffield Foundation to introduce young folk in Orkney to Orkney writers of the past. The map was gifted to the library by Wirdsmit and the George Mackay Brown Fellowship and contains lots of lovely illustrations done by the young people, interspersed with pictures of the Orkney writers.<br />
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Do come and have a closer look, it's a great addition to the new library. <br />
Warehouse Buildingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14311881993467418059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974366918126008034.post-85203187094390153122015-10-13T16:12:00.000+01:002015-10-13T16:12:24.116+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We are always delighted to see young readers enjoying the junior department at the library. Florrie was having a bit of trouble deciding which was her favourite book. Jimmy Choo need to watch out when she's older! (Sarah) <br />Warehouse Buildingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14311881993467418059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974366918126008034.post-15547580859058895512015-09-26T13:15:00.000+01:002015-09-26T13:15:52.959+01:00Yap & Yarn<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's time! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Get your needles at the ready for Yap & Yarn, which starts again on Monday 28th September at the Warehouse Buildings, Stromness, from 5pm - 7pm. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Pop along with your knitting or crochet and enjoy a chat and a cup of tea with fellow yarn lovers. All ages and abilities welcome and there will be help on hand for beginners to get you started. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">You may remember the fantastic <a href="http://stromnesslibrary.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/festive-knitting.html">knitted Christmas tree</a> that the Kirkwall group produced last year, and we thought it would be nice to have one of our own for our lovely new building. </span><br />
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Notice to our customers, but please don't let that put you off. We have still have a large selection of books, cds, audio books, news papers and magazines for your delectation. (Sarah)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi08VWgVuME5kX43DuwDqeUSftGihvRm3sW6MnZAxSsHrifZdlIlsG66o7wx__BjhmmgwivHNwuzM6uxvG4kTf2EkbTAnFgoL_OyPoTTnxI6CWDW1MyV7_5N02QQ654txr1j1ZEvHnE_Ho/s1600/Wi-Fi+and+Netloan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi08VWgVuME5kX43DuwDqeUSftGihvRm3sW6MnZAxSsHrifZdlIlsG66o7wx__BjhmmgwivHNwuzM6uxvG4kTf2EkbTAnFgoL_OyPoTTnxI6CWDW1MyV7_5N02QQ654txr1j1ZEvHnE_Ho/s320/Wi-Fi+and+Netloan.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
Warehouse Buildingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14311881993467418059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974366918126008034.post-68349305008097049022015-08-22T14:52:00.000+01:002015-08-22T14:52:00.356+01:00A Room with a View<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's been a glorious day here and the sunshine most welcome. It's hard to believe that the Warehouse buildings have been open now for almost three months and we have all been incredibly busy. We are delighted to say the new facility has been very well recieved with lots of positive feedback. The biggest oohs and aahs come when people go to the adult lending area up the stairs and see the fantastic view from the seating area. This photo really doesn't do it justice, you'll have to come in and see it for yourselves! <br />
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Many people comment how they could easily sit up there all day. There is a lovely library atmosphere and the upstairs facilities are being well used for people studying as there are also desks in the reference area and GMB room. If you are able to tear yourself away from the upstairs there are many other facilities available including a large junior library selection on the ground floor as well as large print, Orkney books, audio books, public computers, and coucil services.<br />
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It's been a real priviledge to be part of a fantastic new set up and thank you all so much for your lovely feed back and positive remarks about the building. If you haven't been in a look yet we would love to see you so please do pop in and say hello. Sarah Warehouse Buildingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14311881993467418059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974366918126008034.post-20010564494430935412015-08-15T13:41:00.000+01:002015-08-15T13:41:02.333+01:00A New Chapter<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well here we are in our new home! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A warm welcome to all our readers, new and old, as we start the next chapter of the Stromness Library story in our lovely new home at the Warehouse Buildings in Victoria Street. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As with all moves there has been a period of transition as we get used to the new building, and our new roles as library assistants/customer service assistants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">With the expanded range of services on offer there are now two of us working at the reception desk. This means the team has grown, with Carol and Becky being joined by Soo and Sarah, along with our relief staff Keely, Angela, Lara and Evelyn. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We've been enjoying welcoming old and new faces to our fantastic new facilities and services, which include three public meeting rooms, a range of council customer services, comfortable reading and study spaces, and even a coffee machine!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">As the weeks go by we'll introduce you to the team on the blog and learn a bit more about life in the Warehouse Buildings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In the meantime you can read more about the history of the library, and both old and new buildings on the <a href="https://stromnesslibrary.wordpress.com/">New Chapter website</a>,which was developed for the library by Rebecca Marr, and features an original audio piece <a href="https://stromnesslibrary.wordpress.com/opening-lines/">First Lines</a>, produced for the project by Mark Jenkins. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span>Stromness Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10652868072949594575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974366918126008034.post-35757283226060278572015-04-25T16:05:00.000+01:002015-04-25T16:05:49.956+01:00Having a yarn<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are always delighted to welcome visitors to the Stromness Library, and even more delighted when they come back for a return visit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the last couple of weeks we've had visits from two former writers in residence at Stromness Library, Jan Natanson, and <a href="https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poets/nalini-paul">Nalini Paul </a>, as well as our Ravelry friend </span><a href="http://www.ravelry.com/people/westendangela" style="background-color: #eefcff; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15.3999996185303px; line-height: 21.5599994659424px; text-decoration: none;">Westendangela</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While Jan and Nalini shared news of recent writing projects - Jan has a community play in production, and Nalini has a poetry book coming out soon - when knitters get together the talk soon turns to work in progress and recent projects on the knitting needles. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were rather pleased to be able to show off our library cushions, and Becky even posed for a photo beside the windows which were the inspiration for the design. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Watch this space for news about the date of our move to the new building, but in the meantime here is a sneaky preview of the cushions in their new home.</span><br />
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Stromness Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10652868072949594575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974366918126008034.post-48855899602457614672015-04-11T13:02:00.001+01:002015-04-11T13:42:11.324+01:00Bookmarks and biscuits.<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we continue our preparations for the move to our lovely new building, we've been reflecting on our favourite memories of Stromness Library, and we would love to hear yours. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Perhaps you remember coming to the library as a child and have memories of previous librarians, or you visited us while you were in Stromness on holiday. We would love to hear your stories, memories, favourite books and encounters with the library cats. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do please get in touch, either through the comments below or by dropping us an email. We are gathering all these stories from and about the library for our <a href="http://stromnesslibrary.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/New%20Chapter">New Chapter</a> exhibition which will celebrate the history of the library in Stromness when we move to the new building. We want to capture as many stories as we can from the most important part of any library - you, the people who visit it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the years we have worked here there have been many memorable moments, some funny, some sad, and some unrepeatable! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today we were recalling the many items we have found inside returned books. Along with the more predictable discoveries of bookmarks, letters, bills and the like, we can reveal that we once opened a book to discover a custard cream biscuit between the pages. Whether this had been inserted as makeshift book mark, or left behind by accident during a particularly exciting reading-while-biscuit-eating-session, we will never know. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we mentioned our find to a colleague in Kirkwall library, he claimed to have once come across a rasher of streaky bacon being used as a book mark. While we were unable to verify this claim, we would strongly discourage our readers from reading while eating a fried breakfast - just in case.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are in need of a bookmark we have lots here to choose from, including our very own Orkney library bookmarks - save the custard creams to go with your cup of tea!</span><br />
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Stromness Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10652868072949594575noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974366918126008034.post-20094410734627395432015-03-28T17:05:00.000+00:002015-03-28T17:05:53.386+00:00Spring Forward!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't forget to put your clocks forward tonight as we 'spring forward' to lighter evenings and the promise of warmer days to come. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soon Spring will come, and then the thrifty crofter</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Must yoke an ox, and drive his eager plough</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through the wet mould. the sower will follow after, </span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And cast the good seed, rhythmical and slow,</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Along the furrows fringed with April snow. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But for those of us for whom a paintbrush is more of a DIY tool than a means of self expression, the recent BBC television series <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02cs0gw">The Big Painting Challenge</a> may have sparked an interest in exploring our own inner artist. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you're looking for a bit of guidance then we can help, we may not be able to offer artistic advice but we can certainly find you a book that can. With titles from 'Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Oil Painting' to 'Reader's Digest Guide to Drawing and Painting' there should be something to help you choose the right materials and tackle your first masterpiece. </span></div>
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Stromness Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10652868072949594575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974366918126008034.post-83279626337407467242015-02-17T17:00:00.001+00:002015-02-17T17:00:40.504+00:00Cushions<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We thought you might like to see what the Yap and Yarn group have been working on in preparation for our move to the new Library. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We decided it would be nice to find a way to make something for the new building which reminded us of the old library, and came up with the idea of cushions for our lovely new comfy sofas. </span></div>
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Stromness Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10652868072949594575noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974366918126008034.post-23158127644055262015-02-11T15:06:00.001+00:002015-02-11T15:06:53.839+00:00Bookmarks and Bags<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were overwhelmed by the entries to our competitions to design a bookmark for the new Stromness Library and a new children's library bag. The quality of the entries gave our judges a very difficult decision to make but we are delighted to be able to announce the winners.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Congratulations to Erin Rose Bayliss and Magnus Groundwater, joint winners of the bookmark competition. </span></div>
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Stromness Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10652868072949594575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974366918126008034.post-46085191289118486042015-01-23T17:05:00.002+00:002015-01-23T17:05:45.199+00:00Burn's Night <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We don't know about you but by this point in January we are in need of a bit of a boost. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The festive cheer is but a distant memory, as are our resolutions to stay out of the biscuit tin and start a detox/exercise plan/decluttering regime/self improvement scheme etc. So having a legitimate excuse to eat haggis and clapshot, munch shortbread, and drink whiskey is just what is needed to lift the spirits - if also accompanied by the reading of Robert Burn's poetry, some good fiddle tunes and perhaps even dancing we might even forget the howling wind and freezing rain outside!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So have a very happy Burn's night when it comes. We thought you might enjoy the following poem from the bard:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But, oh! respect his lordships taste,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We hope you enjoyed our Advent Quiz for 2014 - the answers have now been published on each day's post. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Carola, if you could email us at stromness.library@orkney.gov.uk we will arrange to get your fabulous prize to you. </span></div>
Stromness Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10652868072949594575noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974366918126008034.post-3955365820989486602014-12-25T09:00:00.000+00:002015-01-06T15:44:14.713+00:00Advent Quiz - Day 25<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Merry Christmas to all our readers! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wishing you all a joyful festive season and many happy hours of reading in 2015.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Stromness Library is now closed for the holidays but will re-open on 5th January 2015 at 2pm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just to clarify that we are still in the old library at Hellihole Road for the moment and will give you plenty of warning when we know the date of our move to the new library building at the Pier head. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In our final question of our Advent Quiz we want to take you back to a time before even this library was built and let you see how the view up Hellihole Road looked then.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the photo the two children are standing where the library is now, and the camera is looking up Hellihole Road. The building furthest away with its gable end facing us is no longer standing, having been demolished in 1937, but can you tell us what it was?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(hint - the photo is taken from the book Stromness Late 19th Century Photographs, or if you walk up Hellihole Road there is a plaque marking the place where the building stood.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So ends our Advent Quiz for 2014, we hope you've enjoyed it as much as we have. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't forget to go back and work on any of the questions you might have missed, there is a fabulous prize for the person with the most correct answers. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You have until 31st December to submit your answers as comments below each day's post. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The answers will be published, and the winner announced on 5th January 2015.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Answer: The Subscription School</span><br />
<br />Stromness Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10652868072949594575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974366918126008034.post-46103466141321894902014-12-24T09:00:00.000+00:002015-01-06T15:42:36.004+00:00Advent Quiz - Day 24<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Question 24</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Which old Stromness custom, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">which came to an end in 1936, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">used to take place in the town on Christmas Eve? </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Answer: The Yule Tree, which was fought over between Northenders and Southenders in a tug-of-war.</span>Stromness Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10652868072949594575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974366918126008034.post-71258762564904013582014-12-23T16:47:00.000+00:002015-01-06T15:37:45.101+00:00Advent Quiz - Day 23<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Question 23</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">George Mackay Brown wrote 'Per Mare:The Stromness Pagent' from which the following is an extract. But can you tell us in which year it was performed?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tall houses, with gardens and piers,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where the stylish merchants lived, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Small slipways for the fishermen, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A new kirk, inns and ale-houses,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The street uncoiled like a sailor's rope from north to south.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And closes swarmed up the side of the hill</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Among gardens and clouds, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And closes stepped down to the harbour</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And the nets and whitemaas.</span> </blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(hint - have a look in the book <i>Stromness Late 19th Century Photographs</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Answer: 1967</span>Stromness Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10652868072949594575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974366918126008034.post-85610311096668376852014-12-23T16:37:00.000+00:002015-01-06T15:35:55.136+00:00Advent Quiz - Day 22<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Question 22</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While Stromness Public Library has been in Hellihole road for 108 years the Orkney Library has been on the go a peedie bit longer - can you tell us the year it was founded?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(hint - have a look at the library logo)</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Answer: 1683</span>Stromness Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10652868072949594575noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974366918126008034.post-62906969635390301172014-12-23T16:15:00.000+00:002015-01-06T15:34:31.880+00:00Advent Quiz - Day 21<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Question 21</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is the name of the knitting group that meets in Stromness Library on alternate Monday's from 5-7pm?</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Answer: Yap and Yarn</span>Stromness Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10652868072949594575noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974366918126008034.post-69273379001952306142014-12-20T11:57:00.000+00:002015-01-06T15:33:37.340+00:00Advent Quiz - Day 20<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Question 20</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can you tell us the title of the novel by Fiona McInnes published in 2014, which is set in Stromness?</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Answer: Iss</span>Stromness Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10652868072949594575noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974366918126008034.post-36645431205388121802014-12-20T11:48:00.004+00:002015-01-06T15:32:47.650+00:00Advent Quiz - Day 19<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Question 19</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How many books can an adult member of Stromness Library borrow at one time?</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Answer: 12</span>Stromness Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10652868072949594575noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974366918126008034.post-27744409128986730202014-12-20T11:44:00.000+00:002015-01-06T15:32:17.566+00:00Advent Quiz - Day 18<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Question 18</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who was the last writer in residence for George Mackay Brown Fellowship, who was based at Stromness Library?</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Answer: Nalini Paul (2009-10)</span>Stromness Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10652868072949594575noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974366918126008034.post-76758716315632665122014-12-20T11:42:00.000+00:002015-01-06T15:31:15.582+00:00Advent Quiz - Day 17<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apologies for the break in service over the past few days. Getting caught up all in one go today, it it will keep you busy over the weekend :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Question 17</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can you name the architect of the new Stromness Library building?</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Answer: Malcolm Fraser</span>Stromness Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10652868072949594575noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974366918126008034.post-43297642446255279222014-12-16T09:00:00.000+00:002015-01-06T15:30:24.682+00:00Advent quiz - Day 16<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Question 16</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For many years George Mackay Brown wrote a weekly column for the Orcadian, and a selection of these were later published in a series of volumes. On 26th October 1972 he wrote about 'The Public Library':</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stromnessians, it seems, are not making full use of their Library. The number of borrowers is only about half of Kirkwall's. It is not that the folk in the west are more uncultured than their fellow-Orcadians; but perhaps over the decades they have fallen out of the habit of reading.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can you prove GMB wrong by naming the book in which this was published in 1975?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Answers will be published and the winner announced on 5th January 2015. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't forget there is a fabulous prize for the most correct answers. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you're stuck on any of the questions then a trip to the library, a look back through this blog and a visit to the <a href="http://www.orkneylibrary.org.uk/index.htm">Orkney Library and Archive website </a>may help!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Answer: Letters from Hamnavoe</span>Stromness Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10652868072949594575noreply@blogger.com2