They offer college search information and other services to guide college-bound students. The foreign languages collection at the Worcester Public Library reflects the needs of a diverse urban population and is a vital part of the library. They include fairly extensive collections in Spanish, Chinese, Russian, French, Polish, German, and Vietnamese languages. Smaller collections exist in Italian, Hungarian, Armenian, Portuguese, Greek, Lithuanian and Albanian. Magazines and newspapers are available in Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese, French, Greek, German and Lithuanian.
Magazines circulate for three weeks.
Back issues of newspapers and magazine are not maintained. Foreign films are kept in the general videotape collection and most have English subtitles. In addition to the standard paper sources, we have microforms and electronic media to facilitate searching for government information issued by the legislative and judicial branches of the federal government. We have the complete statistical census from 1790 to present. The Federal Register, Congressional Record, Code of Federal Regulations, Commerce Business Daily, tax publications, Statistical Abstracts, health statistics and information, Social Security information, the U.S. Code, and Environmental Protection Agency publications are available here also.