World Languages Collection

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Brampton Library’s World Languages Collection is designed to meet the needs of the multicultural population in the city. The Library responds to and supports the educational, informational and inspirational needs and interests of an increasingly growing multicultural population.

Brampton Library's World Languages collection can be found at all the 7 library locations. The Library provides books, magazines, newspapers, DVD and CDs for all ages. Currently, the Library offers materials in the following 21 languages other than English and French:

Arabic

Bengali  

Chinese 

Croatian

Gujarati  

Hindi  

Italian 

Korean 

Malayalam 

Marathi 

Persian 

Polish

Portuguese

Punjabi

Serbian

Sinhalese

Spanish

Tagalog

Tamil

 Urdu

 Vietnamese


In addition, the Library provides the following support:

          • ESL material
          • Dual language picture books
          • Language learning resources
          • Databases for newcomers
          • Literacy collection 
          • Materials in English that cover a wide range of multicultural issues