The Oaxaca Lending Library is the English Speakers Hub


The Oaxaca Lending Library is the hub for 1500 English-speaking expats living in Oaxaca, Mexico. Filled with helpful people and many welcoming activities, The Oaxaca Lending Library is the perfect place for English speaking travelers to begin their vacation in Oaxaca. Let's visit today and see what the library has to offer.

The Lending Library was founded in 1966. Thanks to the many patrons and volunteers, it has grown into a popular expat cultural center offering monthly hikes, talks, and various cultural events for people who live here and for visitors.

Cultural Events 

  • INTRO TO OAXACA Mondays feature a free talk introducing newcomers to Oaxacan culture
  • HOOFING IT IN OAXACA Weekly hikes offered October through March
  • Special weekend overnight trips to ecotourism camps in the Sierra Norte
  • Visits to village throughout the state participating in the Libros Para Pueblos library outreach

Resources

  • Rental binder
  • Street map
  • Bus route map
  • Bulletin board for listing of services rendered or desired
  • Books in English and Spanish
  • Children's Spanish book library
  • Mail delivery to the USA
  • A small cafe offers sweets, bagels and non-alcoholic beverages
  • Monthly newsletter
  • Website
  • Book check out available
  • 35,000 books cataloged and shelved by the dewey decimal system
  • doctor, dentist and masseuse recommendations
  • a good place to make contacts and friends
  • Lectures and classes that draw sell-out attendance
  • Magazines, DVDs and audio books
  • Four computers
  • internet
  • Free wifi . There are several levels of membership ranging from one month to family membership. Its bulletin boards and listings of rentals, services, and real estate

The Oaxaca Lending Library places a strong focus on supporting the local Spanish speaking community.

Charity Events and Outreach

  • Saturdays host language interchanges between English speakers and local Spanish speakers to promote the development of both English/Spanish speaking skills.
  • Libros Para Pueblos charity brings people from Oaxacan communities together with sponsors who want to establish and support children’s libraries throughout the state of Oaxaca.
  • Children’s story hour
  • English lessons for children 3-18

Weekly meetups

  • Monday: Yoga, Intro to Oaxaca
  • Tuesday: Crafting Circle, Bridge Chicago scoring with a change in partners
  • Wednesday: Yoga
  • Thursday: No specific weekly event
  • Friday: Yoga, Duplicate Bridge. Come with a partner.
  • Saturday: Adult intercambio, Childrens’ English Lessons
  • Sunday: Closed


Having a strong and large expat community makes Oaxaca, Mexico one of the best places in the world to become an expat.

In fact, we've come to Oaxaca to do just that! Let's see what resources the library holds for expats who want to live here for a few months or forever! 

Among the myriad of resources is a rental binder with roommate ads as well as landlords with apartments and rooms to rent. We've definitely come to the right place, so we jot down a few names and numbers to continue our search for a home in Oaxaca. 

We arrived two days ago from the United States planning to  live in Oaxaca for 3-6 months. We thought four days would be enough time to find an apartment, but it doesn't look like we're moving in anywhere tomorrow. We have been staying at a place called Hotel One which is a newly built modern Hotel at the eastern edge of the central area of town. I recommend it if you want something modern and new. The other hotels in Oaxaca are older with more cultural charm and we're moving to one of those tomorrow. This one is called Las Mariposas. It's more culturally connected to Mexico AND full of English speaking guests. While the Oaxaca Lending Library is the English speakers hub, is the English speakers hotel. Las Mariposas is the English speakers hotel. 

  

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