Multicultural Services and Information

The ACT Public Library has a services and collections in the following community languages.

Arabic l Chinese l Croatian l Community Information l Dari l Dutch l Farsi l French l German l Greek l Hindi l Indian l Indonesian l Italian l Japanese l Khmer l Korean l Lao l Maltese l Mon l Polish l Russian l Serbian l Sinhala l Spanish l Tagalog l Tamil l Thai l Turkish l Urdu | Vietnamese

Each library holds books, easy to read novels, audio cassettes and videos for adults wishing to improve their English.

Browse the English Learning Collection

All Public Library branches have ESL/Educational computers with software to help English language learners including IELTS

English Conversation Classes

Language collections in the ACT

Multicultural Organizations and Links:

- ACT Office of Multicultural Affairs

- Citizens Advice Bureau - Directory of Ethnic Communities

- The Open Directory - links to over 60 languages

Amharic
Library information in your Language

The Arabic Collection is held in Woden Library
Browse Arabic Books, Magazines, CDs and DVDs
Browse Arabic Newspapers and magazines

Croatian/Hrvatski
The Croatian Collection is held in Belconnen Library
Browse - Books, Magazines, CDs, DVDs
Browse Newspapers and Magazines

Dutch/Nederlands
The Dutch Collection is held in Woden Library
Browse - Books, Magazine, CDs, DVDs

Farsi/Persian

Community Organisation - Persian-Iranian Cultural Foundation -
This collection of 5000 items includes Persian writers and poets, art, architecture , history, philosophy, religions of the world and translated novels from other languages into Persian.

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The French Collection is held in Woden Library
Browse French - Books, Magazines, CDs, DVDs
Browse French - Newspapers and Magazines

German/Deutsch
The German Collection is held in Woden Library
Browse German - Books, Magazines, CDs, DVDs
Browse German - Newspapers and Magazines

The Greek Collection is held in Belconnen Library and Woden Library
Browse Greek- Books, Magazines, CDs, Newspapers
Browse Greek - Newspapers and Magazines

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Indonesian/ Bahasa Indonesia
The indonesian Collection is held in Civic Library
Browse Indonesian - Books, Magazines, CDs, DVDs
Browse Indonesian - Newspapers and Magazines

Italian/Italiano
The Italian Collection is held in Woden Library
Browse Italian- Books, Magazines, CDs, DVDs
Browse Italian - Newspapers and Magazines