Language books in Libraries

Did you know that Hackney Libraries have stock in different languages?

Celebrating the many languages we speak in Hackney…

Our small but mighty stock team have been working hard to organise the books we have in different languages, using census data to bring new and relevant stock to the communities we serve locally. Read on to see which languages are held at your local library!


Clapton Library

Clapton Library has books for children and adults in:

  • Gujarati

  • Urdu

Dalston CLR James Library

Dalston CLR James Library has books for children and adults in:

  • Arabic

  • Kurdish

  • Turkish

  • Ukrainian

Hackney Central Library

Hackney Central Library has books for children and adults in:

  • Bengali

  • Chinese

  • French

  • Italian

  • Portuguese

  • Spanish

Homerton Library

Homerton Library has books for children and adults in:

  • Polish

  • Turkish

Shoreditch Library

Shoreditch Library has books for children and adults in:

  • African (various languages)

  • Arabic

  • Chinese

  • Urdu

Stamford Hill Library

Stamford Hill Library has books for children and adults in:

  • Polish

  • Ukrainian

  • Yiddish

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