Public Library Supply
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As one of the leading suppliers of foreign-language material to UK and overseas public libraries, we can provide expert advice and attention to your orders. We carry extensive stocks of fiction, children's books and language learning material in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Polish, and smaller stocks in Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Panjabi, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Urdu and Vietnamese. In addition, we carry a wide range of language learning material for more than 150 other languages. Fiction in languages not listed can often be ordered in.
We have an extensive network of contacts around the world and all books are sourced in the country of origin. Our specialist staff are constantly receiving and cataloguing new titles and our descriptive catalogue of recent foreign fiction is issued about three times a year, both in print and as a downloadable pdf. We stock mainly native authors, but we also have substantial holdings of translations from English and other languages.
MARC records for all titles in our fiction catalogues, and for all fiction titles on our website, are available from us. We have also been chosen by the OCLC CILLA service as their provider of Polish books with MARC records.
Ordering foreign-language material is not always straightforward and we are happy to advise and to help in any way we can.
Some of the things we offer:
- A large specialist staff of modern-language graduates and native speakers
- A named contact and a priority phone number
- Stocks of 55,000 books and other material in more than 150 languages
- Expert selections, as often as you like, according to your budget and readership requirements
- The option to select titles yourself at our Central London shop. Refreshments are provided
- Subscriptions to magazines, newspapers and journals
- Itemised invoices tailored to your requirements, in British pounds, euros or US dollars
- Worldwide delivery, free within the UK
- Book processing, including book jackets, bar-codes, spine labels, security tags and library plates
- Laminated foreign-language signs in the appropriate language
- Transliteration of non-Roman alphabets, including Chinese, Cyrillic and Arabic
- You can order online, by email, fax or post
- A library discount on all orders
- Regular catalogues, available in printed format, or as a pdf, downloadable from our website:
Contact Helen Vines (Helen.Vines@foyles.co.uk)
