New Americans & World Language Materials

MN Driver's Manual

• Manual del conductor en Minnesota (Spanish)
• Buugga darawalka ee Minnesota (Somali)
• Minnesota phau ntawv qhia rau tus neeg tsav tsheb (Hmong)

Library Resources

• Library Resources for Citizenship and Naturalization
• Online Citizen test preparation (Learning Express)

Rochester Public Library World Languages Materials

Books and Movies

The library has collections in these languages:
Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Khmer/Cambodian, Korean, Russian, Serbo-Croatian / Bosnian, Spanish, Somali and Vietnamese. The library also has smaller collections of books in other languages (total number of languages: 60 - view World Language Collection List).

International Magazines & Newspapers

Beijing Review [online through ProQuest]
Bunte [German]
The Economist
Financial Times [U.K.] [online through ProQuest]
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Policy
Koreana
Macleans [Canada]
New African
New Internationalist
Paris Match [French]
People en Espanol
Russian Life
Saudi Aramco World

We also have online access to current international magazines in these languages available on the Libby app.  

• Spanish
• Portuguese
• French
• Italian
• German
• Japanese
• Chinese
• Afrikaans
• Russian
• Swedish
• Danish
• Korean
• Dutch; Flemish
• Welsh
• Arabic
• Gujarati
• Indonesian
• Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic
• Norwegian
• Tamil
• Turkish
• Ukrainian
• Vietnamese

The library also has collections of magazines to which we no longer subscribe.  Some are located with the books of the same language, and some are in our magazine archives.  These can be found through the library catalog.