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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 Library in #Orkney which has been in operation since 1963. #BookWeekScotland #MobileLibrariesDay2020 
The Mobile Library service was a success right from the start. On the very first trip around the mainland of Orkney the Mobile Library visited over six hundred homes plus seven village stops over a period of seven weeks. In the first two years it issued almost 124,000 books.
Over the last six decades we've had a number of Mobile Library vehicles. At first the service could only reach readers on the mainland of #Orkney, but after the introduction of roll on/roll off ferries in 1990, the service was gradually extended to the islands.
