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Audio and Video Collections

The Toronto Public Library offers audio and video collections in many languages for both adults and children.


Audio Collections for Adults

Audio collections for adults include:

  • Popular music
  • Folk
  • Instrumental music on cassettes or CDs
  • Film soundtracks

Collections may vary in size, but adult audio materials are available in all these languages:

Arabic
Armenian
Bengali
Chinese
Croatian
French
Estonian
German
Greek
Gujarati
Hebrew

Hindi
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Lithuanian
Macedonian
Panjabi
Persian
Polish
Portuguese

Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Spanish
Tagalog
Tamil
Turkish
Ukrainian
Urdu
Vietnamese
Yiddish


You'll find collections in many branches, though the largest collections are in district libraries. Check the Multilingual Collections Guide to find the nearest district library for your language.

Audio Collections for Children

Audio collections for children include:

  • Nursery rhymes
  • Stories
  • Songs

Though the children's collections are small, they're available in a choice of languages:

  • Chinese
  • German
  • Greek
  • Hebrew
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Spanish

Videos

The library offers a large selection of videos for adults and a smaller selection for children. Some videos also come with English subtitles.

The video collections for adults include:

  • Feature videos (entertainment)
  • Educational
  • Instructional videos

Check the Multilingual Collections Guide to find the district libraries with the largest video collections in your language. Videos are available in this long list of languages:

Arabic
Chinese
German
Greek
Gujarati
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean

Punjabi
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Tagalog
Tamil
Urdu
Vietnamese
Yiddish


For children, we have some videos in these languages:

  • Chinese
  • Greek
  • Hebrew
  • Italian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Spanish


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Updated on: August 19, 2008




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