State Library of Queensland Membership Records by Suburb and Postcode

Library membership data for the State Library of Queensland, last updated on 2026-07-07. It includes suburb, postcode, country, and date of membership information, with no data identifying individual members. The dataset is provided by the State Library of Queensland under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze geographic distribution of library members based on suburb and postcode data.
• Study trends in library membership over time based on the date of membership field.
• Examine the proportion of international members based on the country field.
• Model public service usage patterns for demographic or urban planning.

Strengths

• Data is explicitly anonymized, with no information identifying individual members.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Includes geographic fields (suburb, postcode, country) and a temporal field (date of membership).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

State Library of Queensland

Collection Method

Likely administrative records from library membership systems.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is not specified in the input.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-07 14:36:28.802216; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Queensland, Australia, with potential international coverage indicated by a country field.