The Hempstead Public Library is home to the World Language Collection, which contains over 12,000 books in over 20 languages. This special collection serves anyone who resides in Nassau County. If you wish, you may request these titles from our Reference Department. FYI, our library owns a small foreign language book collection, which is on shelves next to the Adult Lounge. If you can’t find what you need please ask, we’d be happy to help you.

When I have the opportunity to sit down and read it’s often at night. By that time my eyes feel a bit strained and I reach for my magnifying glasses. Oh it is a pleasure to be able to find the title I want in Large Print because I can read it so easily and I don’t have to go searching for my glasses. A little secret is that we often get the best sellers in large type at the same time as we get the regular type books and there are fewer holds on the large type. By the way, there is a list of adult large type books in the left column of our web page under “what to read next”. It makes it easy to find out what’s new.

What was that book I read a while ago? What was the book I said I wanted to read? It's hard to remember titles and authors sometimes, especially if you are an avid reader. If you look at LibraryThing.com you can quickly set up an account with a user name and password and keep track of your reading, add your own subject headings (tags) to the books so you can easily find them again, see what others are reading, share your list with friends, join a group of like minded readers and look at the suggester and the un-suggester to find other books you might like or not like. Explore this fun site and you just might get hooked.