Multicultural communities

We have a range of resources for our culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities including Community language books for loan.

Our community languages include:

For adults:

Arabic	Italian	Spanish
Burmese	Japanese	Tagalog
Chinese	Korean	Turkish
Dutch	Persian	Urdu
French	Portuguese	Vietnamese
German	Punjabi
Hindi	Russian

                               

For children:

Arabic	German	Punjabi
Burmese	Italian	Russian
Danish	Nepalese	Spanish
Dutch	Persian
French	Portuguese

If you would like to read a language not held in our library, ask our library staff for assistance. Coffs Harbour Libraries can request books from the State Library in your language. Click here to see the 43 languages which are available.

This is a free service for library members. 

Newspapers

You can access online newspapers in language from the Newsbank database with your library membership.

Help with English

Our libraries can help you improve your English language skills for study, work or everyday conversation. Please see our English Workshop materials.