Did you know that your New York Public Library card gives you remote access to electronic resources available in various languages? Children, teenagers, parents, educators and adults in general can access a great variety of informative and reliable sources to perform school tasks, consult data, learn English or other languages, or spend time with their favorite reading from home, or any remote location.

In addition to electronic book, audio and video formats in different languages, the SimplyE app can be downloaded to read e-books instantly—anywhere, anytime. For additional information about materials in electronic format, please visit E-Book Central.

Discover diverse electronic resources and e​​njoy an online learning and entertaining experience available in many native languages! 

In Spanish 

Biblioteca TumbleBooks

Spanish language animated, talking picture books. Story books, puzzles and games, audiobooks, and books in other languages are all offered through the NYPL site.

Audience: Children

Location: All Branches; Remote Access

Language: Spanish

 

Career Cruising

Career Cruising is a comprehensive bilingual (English and Spanish) interactive multimedia source which features profiles and information on hundreds of occupations, 2 and 4 year college and universities, and financial aid, including scholarship opportunities.

Audience: Teens & Parents; Teachers

Location: All Branches; Remote Access

Language: Spanish, English

Digitalia

Digitalia is a Hispanic Database of ebooks and ejournals where you will find thousands of ebooks from the most renowned Spanish and Latin American Publishing Houses, as well as relevant journals that cover all topics of interest.

Audience: Parents, Teachers

Location: All Branches; Remote Access

Language: Spanish

 

Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos

Hallazgos is a general knowledge online student encyclopedia. It contains information about people, places, objects, events and ideas. Take advantage of this encyclopedia to research and have fun.

Audience: Kids & Parents; Teachers

Location: All Branches; Remote Access

Language: Spanish

 

Latino American Experience

Covers history and culture from all the countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula, including content on modern-day Latin American countries, the history of the Hispanic Diaspora, and indigenous peoples. Features peer-reviewed essays, reference sources, primary documents, media, newspapers, and magazines.

Audience: Teens, Parents, Teachers

Location: All Branches; Remote Access

Language: English

 

Mango Languages

Learn a new language with this interactive database that provides step by step lesson plans for 71 different languages. This database features ESL lessons for Arabic, Cantonese, Mandarin, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese speakers. A text translator is provided.

Audience: Teens & Parents

Location: All Branches; Remote Access

Language: Various

 

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

Opposing Viewpoints offers material to support differing views and help students develop critical thinking skills on thousands of current social topics in the forms of primary source documents, statistics, websites and multimedia. 

Content is in English, but interface is translated in 34 languages

Location: All Branches; Remote Access

Language: Various

 

Information about other resources in different languages ​​is also available at: World Languages ​​Blog. For additional information about this and other resources, please visit your local library. 

Special thanks to Candice Walcott, Libbhy Romero and Yolande Shelton for their valuable collaboration in the creation of this blog.