It's never been a better time to explore our World Languages Collection.

We have big news to share! Your Whitby Library has recently made a major expansion in our World Languages Collections. We now have thousands more electronic materials in Tamil, Chinese, and Spanish. These new additions are just the beginning. We have more than 155,00 multilingual titles eBooks and eAudiobooks on Overdrive!

After receiving requests from our patrons, we’ve also added eContent in Portuguese, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Bengali, Punjabi, Urdu, Persian, Telugu, Tagalog, Thai, Vietnamese, Pashto, Malay, Persian, Turkish and Hebrew. And don’t forget, we also have 7,500 physical multilingual print and DVD items on our shelves.

With your Library card, you can access multilingual adult and children’s books, streaming videos, eBooks, eAudiobooks, magazines and newspapers, movies and TV shows, and a variety of language and newcomer resources. 

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We have something extra special for kids! It’s called Lote4kids. It’s a digital collection of picture books (eBooks and eAudiobooks) in a wide range of languages from around the world.

This extensive amount of content can be found on Overdrive, Kanopy, LinkedIn Learning, Hoopla, and PressReader and in-person at our three locations. Looking for a place to start? Visit our World Languages webpage for a one-stop-shop and begin exploring today!