Collection for newcomers to Québec

To help you discover your new country and learn more about it, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) places books on Québec and Canada at your disposal. You will be able to familiarise yourself with:

• the workings of institutions and public services;
• training and employment;
• the business world;
• culture;
• climate;
• geography and history;
• tourist attractions;
• sports;
• and anything else that relates to your new environment.

The collection, located on Level 2 of the Grande Bibliothèque, has many documentary resources, such as

• directories of community-based agencies;
• practical guides to finding a home;
• photo books of Québec landscapes;
• road atlases;
• and preparatory guides to the citizenship test.

Besides taking advantage of the multilingual collection, you can borrow language learning methods or bilingual dictionaries from the language and linguistics collection. Whether you're at the Grande Bibliothèque or connected from a remote access, you can consult magazines and newspapers from around the world in several foreign languages, in printed or electronic form.

If you are in the process of learning French, you might want to browse through the literacy support collection (For all ages), where the works are selected on the basis of criteria such as ease of reading and accessibility to a large public.

The rich and varied documents of the Québec heritage collection and the universal lending and reference collection make for fascinating discoveries.

The services for newcomers include training activities scheduled in the calendar of activities of the Grande Bibliothèque, as well as information sessions on settling in Québec's regions.

BAnQ is pleased to collaborate with the ministère de l'Immigration et des Communautés culturelles du Québec to provide these services and resources to newcomers.