Portree Library

Contact details:

Portree Community Library
Viewfield Road
Portree
Isle of Skye
Skye & Lochalsh IV51 9ET

Telephone: 01478 614823
Fax: 01478 614824
email: portree.library@highlifehighland.com

Please DO NOT send personal information to the above email address, as the security of email cannot be guaranteed.

Opening hours:

Monday      9.10 am - 5.00pm
Tuesday       9.10 am - 8.00pm
Wednesday 9.10 am - 5.00pm
Thursday      9.10 am - 8.00pm
Friday           9.10 am - 5.00pm
Saturday      10.00 am - 4.00pm

Summer Reading Event

Portree Community Library is confident of making a big splash with its latest summer book themed event which begins on Monday 27 June.

Pre-School to P7 youngsters are invited to take up fifteen free places for a 45 minute session of activities, games and fun – beginning at 3.30pm - which will launch the start of the Summer Seashore Challenge.

The aim is to wet children’s appetites to go beach combing and rock pooling by becoming more familiar with some of the most common plants and animals to be found on Skye’s seashores. Meanwhile the Library will be displaying a large selection of books – many aimed at adults – ranging from marine biology to fishing, seafood, gardening by the sea and even how to decorate your home in true nautical style!

Bookbug Sessions

They are free, fun, informal sessions with trained staff incorporating rhymes, songs, music and stories for pre-school children and their parents / carers to share and enjoy together. NB: children must be accompanied by an adult. We look forward to seeing new faces as well as old ones.

Bookbug sessions are held on alternate weeks, please phone for details

Thursday 2.15 - 2.45
Friday 10.15 - 10.45

Further information

For FAQs, information about joining the library and membership forms see Your Local Library. For more information about services available through Highland Libraries follow the links relating to internet and computer use and reference and information services. Resources available for loan include books, audio books and DVDs. If what you want is not immediately available you can place a request for it.

Our on-line catalogue is available through any internet-linked computer. Library members can place requests, check what they have on loan and renew items which are about to become overdue for return – you just need the bar code number from your library card and your PIN. If you do not know your PIN ask at your local library.

Mobile libraries operate throughout Highland. They work to a timetable, and follow routes planned to make best use of time. For local mobile library stops look at the routes for the Skye and Lochalsh mobile library.