Multilingual collection
The library has books and DVDs in many languages. Many of these are from the Southern Ontario Multilingual Pool (SOMP), a collection of books in different languages shared between libraries in Ontario.
We have materials in:
- Arabic
- Chinese
- Dutch
- German / Deutsche
- Gujarati
- Hindi
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Punjabi
- Romanian
- Russian
- Spanish
- Tagalog
- Tamil
- Urdu
- Vietnamese
You can also get books and DVDs in another language by requesting an Interlibrary Loan. Please contact us to add a new language to our library.
If you are looking for books in French, please see our Français page.
English as a second language (ESL) collection
We have ESL books on the main floor of the library.
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