International Collection
Materials Available in Foreign Languages
Adult Books
Books in the following languages are available on Level 2 of the Main Branch of Red Deer Public Library through The Alberta Multilingual Books Consortium (AMBC).
Arabic Chinese Croatian Danish Dutch French Gaelic | German Greek Hindi Italian Japanese Polish | Russian Spanish Ukranian Urdu Vietnamese |
Books are rotated throughout the year so check frequently to see if we have new books in the language you are interested in.
Children's Books
Books in the following languages are available in the Children's Department of the Main Branch of Red Deer Public Library.
Chinese Czech Danish Dutch French German Greek Italian | Japanese Korean Portuguese Russian Spanish Swedish Ukrainian |
Virtual Libraries and Library Online Resources in Other Languages
Multilanguage Web Sites
Lyrikline . Welcome to your personal poetry reading! www.lyrikline.org is the platform on the internet on which poems are available to listen to, and to read both in their original languages and various translations: a concert of verse in the voices and languages of the authors. Around 370 poets and 3700 poems in 41 languages are available by now as well as thousands of translations in 38 languages!
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today in many languages. At the moment there are
- Spanish -144 books
- Chinese - 69 books
- Dutch - 256
- French - 1001
- German - 422
- Italian - 104
- Tagalog - 53
- English - 17899
Multilanguage Library Databases
Check our Instructional Databases to find materials in other languages and to translate articles into other languages as well.
NewsPaper Direct Press Display
In Library | From Home (Valid RDPL Card required for home access)
With Press Display you have access to close to 500 newspapers from around the world, in the language (35) in which they are published. The newspapers are updated on a daily basis.
Virtual LibrariesArabic
Qur'ān: online text, commentaries, and translations
Created by the Ministry of Religious Affairs in Jordan, this website offers a range of Commentaries in Arabic, as well as detailed lists of variant readings by all of the canonical 'readers'. It includes a search function and a virtual keyboard.
Adab [Ara]
A searchable database with well over 800.000 lines of poetry by pre-Islamic, classical, post-classical and modern authors. There are sound files for selected poems, including readings by Mahmud Darwish himself.A superlative virtual library, containing a good portion of the canon of classical Arabic literature, but probably stronger on the side of belles-lettres than on that of 'Islamic sciences' proper. New users are required to register, but there is no registration fee. The site is entirely in Arabic, but it includes two types of virtual keyboard, which can also be used for searching other Arabic sites.
Chinese
Hanquan Database of Ancient Texts 故宮【寒泉】古典文獻全文檢索資料庫
This widely known, searchable full text database is now freely available on-line! The search interface is simple but efficient, no access restriction! (But frames capable browser needed).Xin yusi 新語絲 (New Threads) (New Threads Chinese Cultural Society, USA)
A very rich database contains a lot of classical and modern texts (prose and poetry). Although the main audience aimed at is the general public and the texts are not intended for scholarly use, most of them seem to be carefully proofread, including a reference to the edition the text is transcribed from. The New Threads Chinese Cultural Society is a non-profit organization, currently headed by Fang Shi-min 方是民 (aka Fang Zhouzi 方舟子), a biochemist (with a PH.D. from Michigan Univ.) and poet (with publications in China, Taiwan and the US), who has done much of the input and proofreading.Classical Chinese Poetry 古典詩詞 (Ming L. Pei, China the Beautiful, USA)
Chinese Classics
Among others, this site contains the complete poems of Li Bai 李白, Li Qingzhao 李清照, Jiang Ye, and Zhang Ji 張繼 (all available either in GB or Big5). Included are also some audio files, English translations, and famous Western poems in Chinese translation (Longfellow, Shelley, Goethe).
French
Canadian Encyclopedia Online (English and French Editions)
With the aid of its partners and the generous support of Heritage Canada, the Canadian Encyclopedia Online is available free of charge to all Canadians and to interested users around the world. The site contains the complete text of the acclaimed Canadian Encyclopedia in English and French, the text of the Junior Encyclopedia of Canada (in English only), numerous interactivities, feature articles, games, the Canucklehead Quiz, and an extensive timeline of Canadian and world events.E-books in French - Ebooks Libres & Gratuits -
ABU: la Bibliothèque Universelle (300 oeuvres en français)
La Bibliothèque électronique du Québec (363 volumes)
Hindi
Immortal Hindi Authors and Poets
Michif
Persian
Persian Literature (Stanford University)
Russian
Moshkov's Library - The largest collection of fiction and non-fiction e-books in Russian
Публичная электронная библиотека Евгения Пескина (Russian literary texts in Cyrillic characters)
Spanish
Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos
(World Book Encyclopedia Spanish Edition)La Enciclopedia estudiantil hallazgos en línea es una enciclopedia de conocimientos generales. Contiene información sobre gente, lugares, objetos, acontecimientos e ideas.
Spanish virtual library of texts, of Universidad de Alicante
Resource type is Internet web-based trade book collection that is appropriate for K-Adult.
Biblioteca Virtual Universal presenta una de las más grandes colecciones de libros digitalizados en idioma español; con acceso directo a las obras y con un sistema de búsquedas por Titulo de la obra, Autor y Clasificación por materias (CDU).
Books are available in PDF format might take some time to download.
Literatura Argentina Contemporánea (excerpts & criticism)
Proyecto Biblioteca Digital Argentina
Sonetos del siglo de oro (109 Spanish sonnets with translations)
Urdu
Urdu Short Stories - site offers a collection of short stories in Urdu.
Vietnamese
Vietgate Literature and Poetry