building responsive multilingual collections at toronto
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Building Responsive Multilingual
Collections at Toronto Public Library OLA Super Conference
Thursday, January 28, 2016
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Planning and Delivering Multilingual
Collections and Multicultural Services
and Programs
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Multilingual & ESL Collections
• Multilingual Collections
2015 Collection Size 616,317
2015 Circulation 2,127,513
2015 Budget $1,227,000
• ESL Collections
2015 Collection Size 68,577
2015 Circulation 382,747
2015 Budget $201,152
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Multilingual & ESL Collections
• Adult and Children’s material
• Books, CDs, DVDs, paperbacks, periodicals,
newspapers
• Children's kits, board books
• Downloadable eBooks, eMagazines, music,
videos, eAudiobooks (Hoopla, OverDrive, Zinio)
• English as a Second Language
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• OverDrive - eBooks in French, Chinese, Portuguese,
Russian, and Spanish
• Zinio - eMagazines in French, German, Chinese, Italian,
Spanish, Portuguese, Vietnamese, and Filipino (English)
• Hoopla - Music and videos in French, Chinese, German,
Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and more
• Chinese e-Magazines database
Multilingual Collections
eContent
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• Staff selectors with knowledge of languages and
communities
• Select from catalogues, lists, reviews,
publisher/vendor websites, blogs, retail outlets
• Profile orders
• Multilingual Material Suggestion Form
Multilingual Collections
How We Select Material
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Amharic Japanese Serbian
Arabic Korean Somali
Armenian Kurdish Spanish
Bengali Macedonian Tagalog
Cantonese Malayalam Tamil
Chinese (Traditional/Simplified) Mandarin Telugu
Croatian Nepali Tibetan
German Panjabi Tigrinya
Greek Persian Turkish
Gujarati Polish Ukrainian
Hebrew Portuguese Urdu
Hindi Pushto Vietnamese
Hungarian Rumanian Yiddish
Italian Russian
Multilingual Collections
Languages Collected
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Multilingual CollectionsCollection Assessments
• Staff and public input
• Performance measures• Statistics from Director’s Station
• Circulation trends
• Stock and turnover
• Cost per circ
• 2011 Census• Backgrounder
• Census tract
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Multilingual Collections2011 Census
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Multilingual Collections2011 Census
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Multilingual Collections2011 Census
Don Mills
Population %
Total - Detailed language spoken most often at home37,465 100.0%
Single responses 34,990 93.4%
English 25,865 69.0%
French 265 0.7%
Non-official languages 8,860 23.6%
Multiple responses 2,485 6.6%
English and French 90 0.2%
English and non-official language 2,300 6.1%
French and non-official language 20 0.1%
English, French and non-official language 75 0.2%
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,040 2.8%
Mandarin 965 2.6%
Persian (Farsi) 920 2.5%
Arabic 720 1.9%
Cantonese 675 1.8%
Korean 405 1.1%
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 360 1.0%
Romanian 330 0.9%
Serbian 300 0.8%
Spanish 295 0.8%
Greek 290 0.8%
Russian 260 0.7%
Turkish 185 0.5%
Armenian 165 0.4%
Urdu 160 0.4%
Bridlewood
Population %
Total - Detailed language spoken most often
at home39,640 100.0%
Single responses 35,950 90.7%
English 16,645 42.0%
French 170 0.4%
Non-official languages19,140 48.3%
Multiple responses 3,695 9.3%
English and French 55 0.1%
English and non-official language3,575 9.0%
French and non-official language20 0.1%
English, French and non-official
language 50 0.1%
Chinese, n.o.s. 3,840 9.7%
Mandarin 3,675 9.3%
Cantonese 3,395 8.6%
Tamil 2,625 6.6%
Armenian 950 2.4%
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)580 1.5%
Persian (Farsi) 455 1.1%
Arabic 435 1.1%
Italian 330 0.8%
Greek 315 0.8%
Gujarati 300 0.8%
Urdu 295 0.7%
Spanish 175 0.4%
Bengali 145 0.4%
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Multilingual Collections
How to Locate Language Collections
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Multilingual Collections
How to Locate Language Collections
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Multilingual Collections
How to Locate Language Collections
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Multilingual Collections
How to Locate Language Collections