The State Library has created a range of promotional material to assist public libraries to promote the multicultural bulk loan service and the indyreads community language collections.
Digital signage
Portrait and landscape images are available for use in your library's digital screens.
Please ask us
These images list the languages available for bulk loan, in English and each language, with the message 'Please ask us'.
Welcome
These images have 'Welcome' in 60 languages.
Posters
Posters can be printed in A4 or A3 for display in your library if you do not have digital screens.
Please ask us
This poster lists the languages available for bulk loan, in English and each language, with the message 'Please ask us'.
Welcome
This poster has 'Welcome' in 60 languages.
Please ask at your local public library
This poster has been created to share with your community partners such as migrant resource centres, your local shopping centre, local government agencies and others where members of the community attend. It lists the languages available for bulk loan, in English and each language, with the message 'Please ask at your local public library'.
Bookmark
You can order bundles of the double-sided multicultural bookmark to promote the multicultural bulk loan service.
Display these in your library, share them with your community partners and take them with you when you are doing outreach activities.
Banner
You can order the “Books in your language” pull up banner to display at your library or at your outreach events.
Social media kit
Posting on your social media channels is a great way to let your community know that they can borrow books in their language from their local public library.
Book displays
A simple way to raise awareness of the availability of multilingual resources is by including language material in book displays in your library.
You can use books from your own language collections or you can request a 'Mixed language box for display' from the bulk loan service to target your community. Let us know what languages you would like and we will send a mix of bright, eye-catching books you can use in displays across your library branches.
indyreads community language collection
indyreads has resources to support multicultural communities, including collections in ten languages other than English and a collection of audiobooks to learn English.
Collections of ebooks and audiobooks to read and listen to are available in the following languages: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese.
The Pimsleur collection has audiobooks to learn English with instructions in 13 languages: Arabic, Chinese Simplified and Traditional, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Persian (Farsi), Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese.
Promote these by displaying the digital signage in your library, or use the images and suggested posts on your social media channels.