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The World Language Collection on Loan at the Hillside Public Library
To accommodate our growing multicultural community, our library offers a selection of foreign language books from the World Language Collection. Based at the Hempstead Public Library, the World Language Collection contains over 13,000 books in 20 languages and may be borrowed by anyone who lives in Nassau County. A sample of the Collection’s popular adult fiction in Italian, Polish, Spanish, Hindi and more are now located at the Hillside Public Library. Additional titles are available upon request. Please ask at the Reference Desk for further assistance.
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