Foreign Languages & Literature

The library has a collection of books called "readers" that are written at a lower language level to help people learning that language. Our largest collection of readers if for English Language Learners, but we have significant holdings in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish.

To find these books, search the Library Catalog for "subject:readers" Then use the language filter to find the books published in a specific language.

We have two options for getting a book you need that we don't have in our collection.

• You can check Mirlyn's Ann Arbor catalog to see if it is available on the Ann Arbor campus. If it is, you can request that it be sent here for you to check out. See our Get This page for information and instructions on this service.
• If it's not available in Ann Arbor you can place an Interlibrary Loan request. This means that the book will come from a participating library elsewhere in the United States. See our InterLibrary Loan page for information and instructions on this service.

Zia Davidian
Email me: ziazan@umich.edu
Visit me: 314 Thompson Library
Call me: 810.766.6781