Resource Description: Multi-lingual solutions

Australia is a culturally diverse society. CAVAL recognizes the importance of providing library services in a range of community languages and offers a broad range of services to the library and information community.  Foreign language cataloguing is one of our many strengths.

 

CAVAL has a remarkable multi-language team, and an understanding of the associated cultural environment.This is a vital component of cataloguing in other languages.

The professional and experienced language specialists in the team catalogue in every published language including:

  • Albanian
  • Afrikaans
  • Amharic
  • Arabic
  • Bahasa Malay
  • Bengali
  • Bosnian
  • Bulgarian
  • Burmese
  • Chinese Simplified
  • Chinese Traditional
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dari
  • Dinka
  • Dutch
  • English (ELT)
  • Estonian
  • Farsi/Persian
  • Finnish
  • French
  
  • German
  • Greek
  • Gujarati
  • Hebrew
  • Hindi
  • Hungarian
  • Indonesian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Kannada
  • Karen
  • Khmer
  • Korean
  • Lao
  • Lithuanian
  • Macedonian
  • Malayalam
  • Maltese
  • Māori
  • Nepali
  • Norwegian
  
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Punjabi
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Sanskrit
  • Serbian
  • Sinhalese
  • Somali
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Tagalog
  • Tamil
  • Telugu
  • Thai
  • Tongan
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian
  • Urdu
  • Vietnamese
  • Yiddish

For public libraries, these services are offered exclusively as part of our Languages Direct fully shelf-ready supply service. In addition to traditional academic library cataloguing, we offer a range of services in translation, transliteration, retrospective conversion, metadata creation and abstracting.