Washington County Grant Expands Beaverton Library Children's Book Collection

BEAVERTON, OR – After receiving a grant from the Library Services and Technology Act, Early Learning of Washington County helped to increase the Beaverton City Library’s supply of children’s books in a variety of world languages.

Provided with $40,000, the library purchased materials in several languages for children aged 6 years and younger, as well as a small collection of parenting books. The languages represented in the new book purchases include Arabic, Chinese, Somali, Spanish, and Vietnamese.

"We are proud to strengthen our world language collections with this grant," said Beaverton City Library director Abigail Elder in a statement. "This allows us to better serve our diverse community."

The library will now celebrate children's reading and world languages at a reception Friday, April 14, beginning at 9:30 a.m. at 12375 S.W. Fifth St. in Beaverton.

Altogether, the Beaverton City Library offers books for children in 21 languages: Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Braille, Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Nepali, Persian, Polish, Russian, Somali, Spanish and Vietnamese, and for adults in 13 languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, Somali, Spanish and Vietnamese.

The celebration will continue with World Language Storytime Week, from May 30 to June 3. The library regularly offers Japanese and Spanish storytimes on Saturdays. Check the library calendar for details.

For more information on the reception, or all things Beaverton City Library, visit BeavertonLibrary.org, or call 503-526-2599.

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