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                    Community languages

                    Dragon dance in Chinatown
                    City of Melbourne Libraries hold collections in a number of community languages and customers also have access to digital resources.
                    ​City of Melbourne Libraries have a range of items in community languages, see the table below for more information.
                    We also have magazines in French, German, Italian and Spanish.

                    Language collections held at each library


                    ​City
                    Library
                    ​East Melbourne Library ​Kathleen Syme Library
                    ​Library at The Dock
                    ​naarm ngarrgu Library
                    ​North Melbourne Library Southbank Library
                    ​Chinese ​Books,
                    DVDs, CDs, magazines,
                    books for children
                    Magazines
                    ​Books, magazines, books for children
                    ​Books, books for children
                    Books,​ magazines, books for children
                    ​Books, magazines, books for children
                    ​Books
                    ​Hindi
                    ​​Books, DVDs, magazines, books for children
                    ​N/A
                    ​N/A
                    ​Magazines, books for children​
                    ​N/A
                    ​N/A
                    ​N/A
                    ​Japanese
                    ​Books,
                    DVDs, CDs,
                    magazines,
                    books for children
                    N/A ​Magazines ​Magazines Books, magazines, books for children
                    ​N/A
                    N/A
                    ​Korean ​Books,
                    DVDs, 
                    magazines,
                    books for children

                    N/A​ N/A N/A ​Books, magazines, books for children​
                    N/A ​N/A
                    ​Spanish
                    ​​N/A
                    ​​N/A
                    ​​N/A
                    ​​N/A
                    ​​N/A
                    ​​Books for children
                    ​​N/A


                    For more information please use the library catalogue.

                    For a list of collections in community languages held by other public libraries in Victoria refer to the Public Library Services Director​y (page 20)​.

                    Online collections

                    Overdrive contains collections in Chinese and Japanese including books, audiobooks, magazines and books for children. There are also thousands of magazines in many languages.

                    Press Reader contains thousands of magazines and newspapers in many languages.

                    LOTE Online for kids contains stories in community languages alongside English translations.

                    ESL

                    We have a large ESL collection, including online language courses to assist people to learn English.

                    Learn another language

                    We have a language learning collection, plus online language courses in Mango Languages and online items in Borrowbox.​​​

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