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The Chinese Community Library's book collection contains of over 26,000 books covering all fields of knowledge and fiction genres. There are popular novels for people who want a quick escape into an imaginary world of excitement, classics for people who want more serious reading, board books for small children, self help books to teach people different skills as well as informational books for students and researchers. There is also a basic reference collection for "in library" use.

The adult book collection is fully catalogued using the Li Yongxiang classification system. Books are arranged in call number order on the shelf.

The children's collection contains over 2,000 books that are sorted into different categories. They are colour coded and shelved according to their categories:

 

Colour

Category

 

  Yellow

  Picture Books

 

  Orange-Yellow

  Biographies

 

  Orange

  English Books

 

  White

  Translated Books

 

  Green

  Children's Magazines

 

  Blue

  Informational Books

 

  Pink

  Story Books

If you cannot find a specific title or need help looking for books on a certain topic, feel free to ask the staff for assistance. Circulating books may be borrowed for twenty one days.

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