Resources for Purchasing non-English materials

The New Jersey State Library's MultiMAC Booklist, hosted by the Newark Public Library, is an excellent resource for identifying adult and children's books in several languages. The booklist is updated quarterly and includes annotations and full bibliographic information. Of special note are the lists of vendors and other resources for collecting in Arabic, Chinese, French, Indic languages, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese.

Spanish Language Titles Recommended for Library Purchase, courtesy of the Nebraska Library Commission.

Criticas Review of Spanish-language materials

Reforma offers a number of valuable resources, including "Spanish for Librarians," "Spanish Internet and Library Terminology," and a list of bookstores and distributors with Spanish language and bilingual books.

Commercial booksellers offering materials in a variety of languages.

Actrace
This Chinese library service provider and cataloging center distributes, catalogs and processes Chinese language books and movies

Adler's Foreign Books
Importer and distributor of French, Spanish, German and Italian language books

Aims International Books
Specialist in Spanish books; also provides children's books in 38 languages

Arte Publico Press
Publisher of books by Latino authors in the US; also has a children's imprint called Pi–ata Books

Asia for Kids
Book and gift catalog

Continental Book Company
Spanish, French, German, Italian, and ESOL books

DK Agencies
Comprehensive selection of books from India published in English, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Hindi and other vernaculars

eHarlequin Spanish Titles
Romance novels in Spanish

International Book Centre, Inc.
Specialist in language learning books including ESOL and language dictionaries

Lectorum
Spanish books for children and adults

Leila Books
Scholarly Arabic books from Egypt and throughout the Arab world

Los Andes
ESL and educational books

Multi-cultural Books & Videos, Inc.
Books, videos, and audio in over 40 languages, plus bilingual books, ESL, language learning resources, and dictionaries

Pan Asian Publications
Children's & adult books and multimedia

Recorded Books Audiolibros
Recorded Books' imprint of unabridged audiobook titles in Spanish

Russia Online, Inc.
Periodicals, books and videos in Russian

Sasuga Japanese Bookstore
Books in Japanese and English, CDs, videos, compact discs and software

SBD Spanish Book Distributor, Inc.
Books in Spanish for adults and children

Schoenhof's Foreign Books
Language-learning material for over 700 languages and dialects, as well as fiction, nonfiction, and children's books in 50 languages.

SCANSOM Publishers
Books in Somali and other African languages including Amharic, Tigrinja, and Swahili, and Asian languages, for adults and children

Tapestry Books
Children's and adult books on all aspects of adoption

Tsai Fong Books
Books, DVDs, and CDs in Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Japanese

Recommended Distributors of Spanish Language Children's Materials

These vendors were recommended by Oralia Garza de Cortes in the book "Library Services to Latinos: An Anthology," edited by Salvador Guerena. The OLC Diversity Awareness and Resources Committee does not endorse or recommend these or any other vendors.

El Almacen de Libros de Nana
(Nana's Book Warehouse)
848 Heber Ave.
Calexico, CA 92231
1-800-737-NANA
619-357-4271
Lectorum Publications
205 Chubb Ave
Lyndhurst, NJ 07071
1-800-345-5946
Bilingual Publications
270 Lafayette Suite 705
New York, New York 10012
212-431-3500
212-431-3567 (fax)
Books on Wings
Libros Sin Fronteras
P.O. Box 2085
Olympia, WA 98507-2085
1-800-454-2767
206-357-4332 (fax)

LEA Book Distributors
170-23 83 rd Avenue
Jamaica Hills, New York 11432
(718) 291-9891
(718) 291-9830 (fax)

Donars Spanish Books
P.O. Box 808
Lafayette, CO 80026
1-800-552-3316
303-666-9175
303-666-9043 (fax)
donars@prolynx.com
Hispanic Book Distributors
1665 W. Grant Rd.
Tucson, Arizona 85745
520-882-9484
520-883-7696 (fax)
 

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