High Life Highland Libraries

Look what our lovely local artist Katie Squires has donated to us- our own Lewis chessman. Inspired by Scottish crime author Peter May this berserker chessman contains parts of his books!😍 Make sure to check him out the next time you're in!

MEGAN MANIA - Its only 1 day to go now! Tomorrow evening is going to be a very exciting night for our club, history is being made with our first ever Olympian. The Press and Cameras will be there and they have asked can you all please come along in Harriers club colours, hoodies, club vest, t-shirt or YDL t-shirt, and this includes parents and siblings where possible. We need to have a huge show of Maroon and Gold and be proud to wear our club colours on this very special occasion. Doors will be open from 6.15pm and we advise you to come early as filming may start around 6.45 pm - 7.00pm, anyone without tickets and and if too busy upstairs can go to the Sports Bar and Fairways will section of part for us. During the evening there will be Pizza slices being served, we also have a Celebration cake from Harry Gow's and they have also donated Olympic empire biscuits to us, roll on tomorrow!!

From forgetful cats and copy cats to dancing cats and clever cats – there’s a picture book for each type, and you’re sure to love them all. 🐱📚❤️

Celebrate National Cat Day by discovering a list of our favourites. . .

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💬 "It is never too late to make different decisions about your future or to retrain and follow a different path." Shireen, Library Supervisor.



Developing the Young Workforce Inverness & Central Highland
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BGCP Comic Con: Inverness BGCP returns to Inverness 10/08/24

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These girlies are making the most of the glimmer of sunshine for the summer holidays!
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They snapped up some ice cream from ambiance cafe this week, picking their favourite flavours - bubblegum, chocolate and mint choc chip
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Ambiance stock delicious Orkney ice cream - yum!

We are delighted that High Life Highland Libraries has been successful in securing Green Libraries Scotland Funding! 🌳🌿

The funding will help our team, in collaboration with High Life Highland and High Life Highland Countryside Rangers to develop four pilot climate hubs in Dingwall Community Library, Caol Library Wick Library and Ardnamurchan Library, growing community climate engagement and education. Activities will include the creation of two new seed libraries; an afterschool nature club for primary-aged children encouraging gardening, tree planting and recycling; community clean-ups; and new climate engagement book/eBook library collections. High Life Highland High Life Highland Countryside Rangers The Scottish Library & Information Council

Check High Life Highland page and follow how project progresses over the coming months! 🙂

Belladrum 2024 may feel like a distant memory for many, but this little bear is still on their travels! They arrived at our library support unit this morning in a box of books from one of our libraries.

We'll take good care of this little bear Mikeysline!

The Flow Country of Caithness and Sutherland has been awarded world heritage status. 🙂

The nature rich landscape covers almost 2,000 sq km (469,500 acres) of one of the most intact and extensive blanket bog systems in the world. High Life Highland Countryside Rangers High Life Highland The Highland Council Unesco World Heritage Sites UNESCO

Scotland’s Flow Country secures World Heritage status - The Flow Country The most expansive and best example of blanket bog in the world, the Flow Country in the far north of Scotland has joined the Serengeti, the Galapagos Islands and the Great Barrier Reef in securing prestigious UNESCO World Heritage Site status for its globally important nature.  This is a global fi...

Have you received a Bookbug Baby, Toddler or Explorer bag this year?

Help us to improve our Bookbug Bags by sharing your feedback this short survey. As thanks for your help, you have the option to be entered into a prize draw to win a bundle of books and goodies for your family! 👇

bit.ly/BagSurvey24

Calling all residents of Merkinch!

We are pleased to be attending a community event tomorrow, 24th July, alongside a range of local services. Drop by to speak to agencies about housing, chat to the police about your local area, or just enjoy a Bookbug session!

📍 Merkinch Community Centre
🕧 12:30 - 14:30

Vacancy based at Inverness Library - Network Librarian (Part Time) High Life Highland Inverness Library https://www.highlifehighland.org/jobs/chlh-2407-13-network-librarian/

Beth has become the first Fortrose Library reader to finish the Summer Reading Challenge 2024 and receive her medal and certificate - well done, Beth! While Beth has it done and dusted, it's still not too late to sign up so remember to pop in and pick up a Challenge pack with your young readers!

It was a pleasure to welcome Duarte Bué Alves today on their outreach consular visit to Inverness 🗺 We hope you enjoyed the tour of our library and thank you for the kind donation of Portuguese language books to add to our collection 📚🙌

New magazine alert!

Some new magazines have landed on our shelves - remember you can take home the back issues, exactly the same as our books. For both adults and juniors why not stop by and have a browse 🤓

This week we said goodbye to Sophie, one of our volunteers, who is soon to begin a post-graduate research placement at the University of Oxford. Good luck Sophie and thank you for all your hard work at the Highland Archive Centre!