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Explore Public libraries directory, Queensland

Charts and tables over the 336 rows of the latest version, worked out in your browser from the Parquet file. Nothing you do here leaves the browser until you save a link.

Paste this where the dashboard should appear. The frame shows the attribution and links back here.

Let readers change the charts in the frame. Their changes stay in their browser and never alter the saved dashboard.

The explorer needs JavaScript and a browser from the last few years. The dataset page has every file and the query API.

Data: State Library of Queensland, Queensland Government, State Library of Queensland - Queensland public libraries directory, sourced 3 October 2026, https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/public-libraries, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Licence terms.

How it works

Change a panel

Press Edit at the top right of a panel to open its settings. Drag fields into Group by, Split by, Sort by and Filter, pick a chart type at the top, and choose sum, count or average beside each number. More fields lists everything else in the dataset. The chart types include bars, lines, areas, scatter plots, heatmaps, treemaps and sunbursts, and maps of the coordinates. Add a chart puts a new panel on the dashboard. Drag a panel's title bar to move it, or drag the line between panels to resize.

Filter every panel at once

The chart marked Click to filter the others does just that: click a bar and the other panels show only those rows. Click it again to clear. Any panel can do the same. Open the menu at the left of its title bar and turn on filtering from there.

Share or keep a dashboard

The address bar holds the whole dashboard, so copying it is enough. Save a short link to store the dashboard on this site and get a shorter address. A saved dashboard never changes; saving again after an edit makes a new link. Embed gives a frame you can paste into a web page, with the attribution inside it.

Download what you see

The export button in a panel's settings toolbar downloads the panel as CSV, JSON or Arrow, or a chart as PNG. The copy button beside it puts the same data on the clipboard. The full files are on the dataset page.

What the fields mean

The explorer names each field in words. The files and the query API use the field name beside it.

In the explorer	Field name	Type	Note
Directory link	directory_url	string
Branch name	branch_name	string
Branch type	branch_type	string
Name of library service	name_of_library_service	string
Library service type	library_service_type	string
Wifi availability	wifi_availability	boolean
Address line 1	address_line_1	string
Address locality	address_locality	string
Postcode	address_postcode	string
Postal address line 1	postal_address_line_1	string
Postal address line 2	postal_address_line_2	string
Postal address locality	postal_address_locality	string
Postal address postcode	postal_address_postcode	string
Interlibrary loan address line 1	ill_address_line_1	string
Interlibrary loan address line 3	ill_address_line_3	string
Interlibrary loan locality	ill_address_locality	string
Interlibrary loan postcode	ill_address_postcode	string
Phone	phone	string
Email	email	string
Monday	monday	string
Tuesday	tuesday	string
Wednesday	wednesday	string
Thursday	thursday	string
Friday	friday	string
Saturday	saturday	string
Sunday	sunday	string
Latitude	latitude_decimal	number
Longitude	longitude_decimal	number
Date created	date_created	string	Blank in almost every row of the 2026 release.

How it runs

The page downloads DuckDB and Perspective once, about 17 MB, then this version's data.parquet (52 KB). Every chart is a query DuckDB answers in the browser, so there is no rate limit and the files stay the only source. Dated versions never change, so a saved dashboard over one shows the same numbers for good. A map panel draws its background from OpenStreetMap tiles, so while one is on screen your browser asks OpenStreetMap for them and it sees your IP address. The data itself never leaves the browser.