Our Services
Books in Other Languages
Books in community languages are available at some libraries:
- Polish - Carmondean, Broxburn, Bathgate and Almondbank libraries
- Urdu - Bathgate and Carmondean Libraries
- Chinese - Carmondean Library
These books can be ordered free of charge from any library in West Lothian. You can also order them from home through the library catalogue.
We also have language sets. These are mainly on CD (some are cassettes), and most have accompanying books. They cover most European languages.
Macmillan Cancer Information and Support
The Macmillan Cancer Information and Support Centre offers local people information on all aspects of living with cancer. Based in Carmondean Connected in Deans, Livingston, the centre is staffed by an experienced Macmillan nurse and trained volunteers.
For more information, please click here
Schools Service
We supply local schools with children's fiction in other languages to provide help for pupils whose first language isn't English. Most of these are dual language - the words in the story are in English as well as the pupil's native language.
We also have some translations of popular authors such as Roald Dahl, Terry Pratchett and Jacqueline Wilson in Polish.
Stock covers a wide variety of languages and includes large numbers of books in Polish, Urdu, Punjabi, Chinese, French, Arabic and Japanese. We also have a very small collection of books in other languages such as Hungarian, German, Slovakian, Malayalam and Russian.
