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Library Services for EAL Students: Boroondara Libraries

Free membership is available for Boroondara Library Services. Please see library website for further details. 

Online English Learning Resources

The following Online English Learning Resources are available:

Road to IELTs – Academic 

Road to IELTs – General training

Transparent language online

PressReader

PressReader database provides resources in Chinese (simplified) 208 Magazines, 33 Newspapers, mainly used by Chinese from mainland China.

Different categories are available such as Music, News, Outdoors etc. including popular Newspapers  including 人民日报， 时代周报，东方日报， 解放日报  
Popular magazines like 意林， 今日文摘， 青年文学， 小说月报 

Boroondara Libraries offers many services. Please see library website for detailed information.

Non-English Language Resources

Boroondara Library Services has Non-English Resources in the following languages:

Chinese

Greek 

French

Italian 

Korean

German

Non-English Newspapers

The following Non-English newspapers are available at the branches indicated:

  • Sing Tao (Hong Kong) - Held at Ashburton and Balwyn (For 1 week only)
  • Chinese Melbourne Daily - Held at Balwyn, Hawthorn & Kew (For 1 week only)
  • II Globo - Held at Hawthorn (For 1 week only)
  • Neos Kosmos -- Held at Hawthorn (For 1 week only)