Community Languages
While a large amount of our collection is English, part of our commitment to our community includes the development of our Community Languages (also known as Language Other Than English (LOTE) Collection.
Community Language items are collected and provided through public libraries to support literacy and learning for and about:
- Our patrons whose first language is not English.
- Our patrons with an interest in reading material in another language.
- Western Australian Indigenous people.
List of current languages held:
| Arabic |
Maltese |
| Bosnian |
Norwegian |
| Chinese |
Polish |
| Croation |
Portuguese |
| Czech |
Romanian |
| Danish |
Russian |
| Dutch |
Serbian |
| Farsi |
Sinhalese |
| French |
Spanish |
| German |
Swedish |
| Greek |
Tagalog |
| Hungarian |
Tamil |
| Indonesian |
Thai |
| Italian |
Turkish |
| Japanese |
Ukranian |
| Korean |
Urdu |
| Khmer |
Vietnamese |
| Malay |
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Community Language collection items are available for loan under the same terms as other items in the Library.
If you have any questions about these collections, please contact us. We welcome any suggestions from the public as to their needs and requirements for material in their native languages
Albany Public Library members are also able to access Language Learning resources online. You can access this eResource here.