OCLC Language Sets are the fast way to build multilingual collections, making it easy and affordable to serve your culturally diverse community. In the package of pre-selected sets, you get everything you need to start, maintain or expand a non-English language collection of books and videos. Or using custom collections, you tell us what type of materials you would like to receive (fiction, non-fiction, juvenile, videos, DVDs, etc.). Regardless which option you may choose, you get quality MARC records for each title, your library's symbol added to WorldCat, and free cataloging and shipping.
When do you need Language Sets?
- If your non-English user population is growing.
- If you do not have an in-house language specialist.
- If you want to serve all of your community.
- If you do not know whom to contact to acquire high-quality non-English material.
Preselected sets: receive everything in one package, ready to shelve!
Our language specialists do all the work:
- Select and acquire current popular materials in your choice of 13 languages for adults or children.
- The sets include fiction, non-fiction, or a mixture of both.
- The sets include no duplications.
- The price and the number of books is fixed, for easy budgeting on a yearly basis.
- Catalog in full MARC with LC subject headings and Dewey or LC call numbers. All records include at least one romanized vernacular or Bilindex subject heading.
- Physically process your items, if requested.
- Set your holdings in WorldCat.
- Ship your new materials to you at no cost.
We create new sets every other month—six sets per language each year. You may order just a single set or request a year-long subscription to steadily build your collection.
For more specific needs, you can also use our custom collections service.
