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Volunteer Development Scotland Ltd. (also known as Volunteer Scotland).
Charity registered in Scotland SC013740 and a company limited by guarantee, registered in Scotland, No. SC106743. Our registered Office is Jubilee House, Forthside Way, Stirling. FK8 1QZ

Orkney Library And Archive

Kirkwall and Stromness libraries have a wide range of books for loan as well as audiobooks, eBooks, eAudio and jigsaws. Free Wi-Fi is available alongside public access PCs. There is a Mobile Library service for rural and island areas and a Home Library Service.Orkney Archives is based in the main building in Kirkwall and is invaluable for researching family or local history and culture of Orkney. The Orkney Room houses a collection of published works about Orkney while the Photographic Archives contains more than 60,000 images with the earliest dating from the mid-nineteenth century.