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Today is #RLSDay which marks the birthday of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson. One of his most famous books is The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde which is a dark tale...what?

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

No, JEKYLL.

Of course that's how you say it. How do YOU say it? The surname Jekyll is originally of Cornish origin and was traditionally pronounced 'Jeekul' so that it rhymes with treacle. Stevenson named the character of Henry Jekyll after his childhood friend Walter Jekyll, who was brother of the writer and landscape artist Gertrude Jekyll.

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.

We read that it was possible to use a 3D Printer to make a lithophane from a photograph. A lithophane is an etched image that appears 3D when back lit and traditionally they were made by etching a design onto very thin porcelain. We wanted to make one using PLA plastic filament. So we used this photo of St Magnus Cathedral in #Orkney and ran it through some software to create a .stl file that could be sent to the 3D Printer.

Every day in our Photographic Archives the staff are working with old photographs, making prints and copies from old negatives. But yesterday they printed something amazing. This is a print of Dr William Balfour Baikie who was born in Kirkwall in 1825. He was a naval surgeon and explorer and this photograph was taken just before he left for his first expedition to West Africa to explore the River Niger.

So over the last few months kids keep coming into the library asking if we have any books about this thing FORTNITE. We don't and I'd never heard of it so I tried asking what it was. Is it a film? No. A cartoon? No. An game, like Pokemon or something? Yeah kinda. Nobody could tell me what all the fuss was about.

Then today a man came in to borrow some Lee Child books and he had his son with him. It said #Fortnite on his T-shirt.

In one of our archive strong rooms there is a shelf. The shelf does not contain the most exciting or interesting item in the archive but it does contain something amazing.

A thread. On the shelf there is a number of sturdy boxes and in one of the boxes there are a number of folders.