English libraries in HCMC

The American center is a great place to study and is easily accessible. It is situated in the American consulate. It is a small reading room, you cannot borrow any books home, but you can study there. They have few computers with huge screens and a lot of DVDs that you can watch. There is also a big TV with a DVD player. To listen to the films you can use wireless earphones.

Every 2 weeks on Wednesday there are English speaking classes, free of charge. Every few days there are also different activities organised in the library. Check out their website for the exact information.

You can acces the library catalogue online.

The opening hours of the American center are

Monday to Friday: 08:30 – 17:00

Thurday: 08:30 - 19:00

CEFALT library.

It has 1843 books. You can find there books for gramar, books to prepre to different English exams, such as TOEIC, TOEFL, IELTS, BEC, PET, CAE, GRE and GMAT tests, books to learn vocabulary, practice reading, writing and listening as well as English story books and dictionaries.In the library you can also use CD-ROMs and watch films.

You can borrow books after making a membership card. It costs 100.000 VND per year. And for students of CEFALT school it is 50.000 VND per year.

When you want to borrow a book you need to pay a deposit
1 Vietnamese book: VND 100,000
1 English book: VND 300,000
1 English storybook: VND 50,000
They will give you the money back when you return the books. You can keep them for 14 days and it is also possible to extent 7 more days. You can borrow maximum 2 books.

The opening hours of CEFALT library are from Monday to Friday:
8:30 - 11:30 and 13:30 -17:30

It is very inconvenient that it is closed on weekends. Only students can use it, but if you have to work then it is quite impossible to go there.

The address of the CEFALT library is

87 Tran Quoc Thao St., Dist. 3, HCMC
Tel: 3932 5830 ext. 601
Fax: 3932 0008
email: thuvien@cefalt.edu.vn