About 70,000 items in 45 languages are available through your local Western Australian public library. Where's Spot? or Agatha Christie in Arabic, John Grisham and Stephen King in Italian, Dutch and Chinese, poetry, essays and biographies in Greek, Punjabi and Turkish, and novels in all the languages held.

The State Library aims to provide resources through public libraries in relevant community languages which recognise the cultural diversity of Western Australian society. We do this by supporting the needs of members of ethnic or linguistic groups with resources which help them maintain and develop their ancestral cultures and languages. At the same time this allows and facilitate equity of access to information regardless of culture and language, whilst maintaining the balance of the wider collection.

A wide range of  books, some cassettes, videos and DVDs are available for the multicultural community in the following languages :

Afrikaans Arabic Bulgaria Chinese Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Esperanto Farsi Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Khmer Korean Kurdish

Macedonian Malay Maltese Norwegian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Serbian Serbo-Croatian Slovenian Spanish  Swedish Tagalog Tamil Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Zulu

You may search for items in a particular language in the State Library of Western Australia Catalogue.

There are search tips available to help you with your search.

For more information, or to check the availability of material in a specific language, contact your local public library.