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Multilingual Collection

Multilingual Collections in the Vancouver Public Library include recreational reading material for adults and children in a wide range of languages other than English represented within the City of Vancouver. Decisions around which languages to collect are made based on Census profiles, community input and a variety of other considerations.

Central Library has language collections that represent all the languages that the Library currently collects while branches have collections in languages other than English representative of the demographics of their individual neighbourhoods.

For information in other languages go to:
Français  |  中文  |  日 本 語 |   Español |  हिन्दी |  한국어 |  Việt Ngữ

Central Library Multilingual Collection

  • French (Français) - adult recreational reading. (For reference materials consult all other Divisions at Central.) The Children's Library houses a large children's French collection.
  • Chinese (中文 )
  • German
  • Greek - magazines and newspapers only
  • Hindi (हिन्दी)
  • Italian
  • Japanese (日 本 語)
  • Korean (한국어)
  • Persian/Farsi
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Punjabi
  • Russian
  • Spanish (Español)
  • Tagalog
  • Vietnamese (Việt Ngữ)

Branch Library Multilingual Collections

Chinese

French

German

Greek

Hindi

Italian

Japanese

Korean

Persian/Farsi

Punjabi

Polish

Portuguese

Russian

Spanish

Tagalog

Vietnamese

For more information, contact:
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604-331-3603
james.bond@vpl.ca