Public library branch statistics, Queensland
liveOne row per public library branch or mobile library in Queensland for one financial year, from the annual statistics the State Library of Queensland collects from councils. Each row gives the council, the service type, the branch name and year of opening, opening hours per week, mobile library hours and stops per week, total and public access floor space, the internet connection type, and whether public Wi-Fi and bookable spaces are offered.
The publisher adds a new file for each financial year. This entry follows the newest. A dash, kept as a null value, means the measure does not apply, such as mobile stops for a fixed branch.
Also called: Queensland public libraries annual statistics, branch data, Queensland library floor space and opening hours.
Part of Queensland public libraries, 3 tables the publisher releases together: Public libraries directory, Queensland, Public library statistics by council, Queensland.
- What is in each row?
- Each row is one library branch or mobile library in the financial year the file covers. It gives the council and its service type, the year the branch opened, its opening hours per week, mobile operating hours and stops, total and public floor space in square metres, the internet connection and whether public Wi-Fi and bookable spaces are offered.
- What do IND, RLQ and IKC mean?
- They are the publisher's service types. IND is an independent council library service, RLQ is a council in the Rural Libraries Queensland partnership with the State Library, and IKC is an Indigenous Knowledge Centre.
- Which year does this cover?
- The publisher adds one file per financial year. This entry follows the newest branch file, which is 2024/2025 at the time of review, and each new year becomes a new version.
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Any agent that connects to publicdata.au/mcp can find this dataset, read its 12 fields, count and filter across all 340 rows and diff its versions. Every answer names the version and carries SLQ's attribution. No key.
Then ask it: What does Public library branch statistics, Queensland hold, and what changed in the newest version?
claude mcp add --transport http publicdata https://publicdata.au/mcpOne command. No key, no account, no sign-up.
Settings, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste https://publicdata.au/mcp.
On the web and in the desktop app.
https://publicdata.au/mcpStreamable HTTP. Cursor, VS Code or any client that connects to a remote MCP server.
Using https://publicdata.au/llms.txt, how many people died on Queensland roads in 2025, by month?For an assistant that reads the web and has no connector.
The dashboard above, live. Click to filter, add panels, share a link or embed a frame.
Query APIFilter and count from a URLaggregate?group=council&metric=sum.floor_space_total
Library floor space in each council area, in square metres: 33,287 Brisbane City Council, 18,871 Gold Coast City Council, 12,865 Moreton Bay Regional Council, 10,732 Logan City Council.
Download it as Excel, CSV, JSON and 6 more formats
Pick a format and a version. Excel is picked first because it opens in the tools most offices have. The URL is yours to keep. A dated version never changes.
In your own tools
Use it in Excel, R, Python and more
Excel and Power BI read the CSV from its address and refresh from it. The R and Python packages take any dataset on this site by its slug, so a new dataset needs no new release. The DuckDB file attaches read-only over HTTPS, and a query reads only the blocks it touches.
The dated URL in the code never changes. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-public-library-branch-statistics/latest/ redirects to the newest version.
https://publicdata.au/d/qld-public-library-branch-statistics/latest/data.csvIn Excel choose Data, then From Web, and paste this address. Excel keeps it, so Refresh All reads the newest version. A sheet holds about a million rows; past that, load the query to the Data Model.
https://publicdata.au/d/qld-public-library-branch-statistics/latest/data.csvIn Power BI Desktop choose Get data, then Web, paste this address and choose Anonymous when asked how to sign in. A scheduled refresh reads the same address, so the report follows each new version.
library(publicdataau)
df <- pd_read("qld-public-library-branch-statistics")
pd_attribution(df)install.packages("publicdataau"). pd_read() fetches the version's Parquet file; pd_rows() and pd_aggregate() ask the query API instead, and pd_connect() attaches the DuckDB file.
import publicdata_au as pd_au
df = pd_au.read("qld-public-library-branch-statistics")
df.attrs["publicdata"]["attribution"]pip install "publicdata-au[pandas]". read() fetches the version's Parquet file; rows() and aggregate() ask the query API, and connect() attaches the DuckDB file.
INSTALL httpfs; LOAD httpfs;
ATTACH 'https://publicdata.au/d/qld-public-library-branch-statistics/v/2026-07-21/data.duckdb' AS qld_public_library_branch_statistics (READ_ONLY);
SELECT council, count(*) FROM qld_public_library_branch_statistics.records GROUP BY 1 ORDER BY 2 DESC;The DuckDB file attaches read-only over HTTPS and only the blocks a query touches are read. Parquet works the same way: FROM read_parquet(url).
const res = await fetch("https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-public-library-branch-statistics/aggregate?group=council&metric=sum.floor_space_total");
const { rows, publicdata } = await res.json();
console.log(rows, publicdata.attribution);The query API answers a page on any site as well as Node, with no key. It returns the rows and the attribution the licence asks for.
What is in it
Column names are made snake_case and the publisher's original header is kept beside each one. Blank cells are null. Nothing is added, removed, ranked or summarised.
| Field | Type | Publisher's header | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| council | string | COUNCIL | |
| service | string | SERVICE | IND is an independent council library service, RLQ a Rural Libraries Queensland council and IKC an Indigenous Knowledge Centre. |
| branch_name | string | BRANCH Name | |
| branch_year_of_opening | integer | BRANCH YEAR OF OPENING | |
| branch_opening_hours_per_week | string | BRANCH OPENING HOURS PER WEEK | Hours per week. Kept as text because one row in the 2024/2025 file reads 50.5. with a trailing full stop. |
| mobile_operating_hours_per_week | number | MOBILE OPERATING HOURS PER WEEK | |
| mobile_stops_per_week | number | MOBILE STOPS PER WEEK | |
| floor_space_total | number | FLOOR SPACE TOTAL | Square metres. |
| floor_space_public_access | number | FLOOR SPACE PUBLIC ACCESS | Square metres. |
| internet_connection_type | string | INTERNET CONNECTION TYPE | |
| services_public_access_wifi | boolean | SERVICES PUBLIC ACCESS WIFI | |
| services_bookable_spaces | boolean | SERVICES BOOKABLE SPACES |
Download this table as a data dictionary (Excel), or read it as a Frictionless Table Schema at schema.json. The key is council, branch_name.
A sample of 10 rows
From the latest version, newest first by year of opening, then in the publisher's order, with every field. A blank cell is shown as null.
| council | service | branch_name | branch_year_of_opening | branch_opening_hours_per_week | mobile_operating_hours_per_week | mobile_stops_per_week | floor_space_total | floor_space_public_access | internet_connection_type | services_public_access_wifi | services_bookable_spaces |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Townsville City Council | IND | Citylibraries Riverway | 2023 | 60 | null | null | 1856.5 | 1533 | Broadband | true | true |
| Balonne Shire Council | RLQ | St George | 2022 | 47.5 | null | null | 682 | 682 | Broadband | true | true |
| Barcaldine Regional Council | RLQ | Alpha | 2022 | 15.5 | null | null | 40 | 40 | Broadband | true | false |
| Mackay Regional Council | IND | Mobile | 2022 | null | 16 | 26 | 28 | 21 | Broadband | true | false |
| Mackay Regional Council | IND | Walkerston | 2022 | 31 | null | null | 123 | 121 | Broadband | true | false |
| Noosa Shire Council | IND | Library Bookshelf - Peregian | 2022 | null | null | null | null | null | null | false | false |
| Noosa Shire Council | IND | Library Bookshelf - Pomona | 2022 | null | null | null | null | null | null | false | false |
| Gold Coast City Council | IND | Carrara Library Kiosk | 2021 | null | null | null | null | null | Broadband | false | false |
| Gold Coast City Council | IND | Coomera Library Kiosk | 2021 | null | null | null | null | null | Broadband | false | false |
| Gold Coast City Council | IND | Labrador Library Kiosk | 2021 | null | null | null | null | null | Broadband | false | false |
The first row as JSON
As it appears in data.json.
GET https://publicdata.au/d/qld-public-library-branch-statistics/latest/data.json
{
"council": "Aurukun Shire Council",
"service": "IKC",
"branch_name": "Aurukun",
"branch_year_of_opening": 2016,
"branch_opening_hours_per_week": "37.5",
"mobile_operating_hours_per_week": null,
"mobile_stops_per_week": null,
"floor_space_total": 350.0,
"floor_space_public_access": 300.0,
"internet_connection_type": "Broadband",
"services_public_access_wifi": true,
"services_bookable_spaces": true
}
Query it without downloading
The query API returns only the rows you ask for, as JSON, NDJSON or CSV, from the same typed rows as the files. It needs no key. Build a query here and run it, then copy the URL or the code into your own work.
How filters work
Each filter is field=operator.value in the query string, and every filter must match. A number or date field compares as a number or date, and a text field compares as text. Values are case-sensitive except with ilike. Prefix not. to negate a filter, as not.eq.value.
| Operator | What it matches |
|---|---|
| eq.value | Equal to the value. |
| neq.value | Not equal to the value. A blank cell does not match. |
| gt.value | Greater than the value. |
| gte.value | Greater than or equal to the value. |
| lt.value | Less than the value. |
| lte.value | Less than or equal to the value. |
| like.*text* | Matches a pattern where * stands for any run of characters. Case-sensitive. |
| ilike.*text* | The same as like, ignoring case. |
| in.(a,b,c) | Equal to any value in the list. A value cannot contain a comma. |
| is.null | Blank in the source, or suppressed by the publisher. |
| Parameter | What it does |
|---|---|
| select | Fields to return, comma-separated. Every field when absent. |
| order | field.asc or field.desc, comma-separated. The publisher's row order when absent. |
| limit | Rows per page, 1 to 10,000. 100 when absent. |
| offset | Rows to skip. The next URL in each answer sets it for you. |
| group | On aggregate, fields to group by, comma-separated. |
| metric | On aggregate, count, sum.field, avg.field, min.field or max.field, comma-separated. count when absent. |
| format | json, ndjson or csv. JSON carries the provenance header, and the others carry it in response headers. |
Without a version the API answers from the newest loaded version, and that answer changes when the publisher releases again. Put versions/<date>/ before rows or aggregate for an answer that never changes. /api/v1/datasets/<slug>/versions lists the loaded versions. The 1 newest version is loaded; versions lists them.
The API allows 60 requests in 10 seconds from one address. Above that it answers 429 for 10 seconds with a Retry-After header, a RateLimit-Policy header and a JSON body that gives the limit. Every API answer carries the same RateLimit-Policy. A client should wait the Retry-After seconds, or read the files, which have no limit. openapi.json describes this dataset's query paths for client generators and agents.
https://publicdata.au/mcp is a remote MCP server over Streamable HTTP with the same tools, defined in the same place, so a tool added to the pages is added here too. It needs no key and no account. The row tools are held to the query API's limit of 60 queries in 10 seconds from one address, and each call is two queries because it also counts the matching rows. Add it to Claude Code with claude mcp add --transport http publicdata https://publicdata.au/mcp, add the URL in Claude as a custom connector, or give it to any client that connects to remote MCP servers. Each queryable dataset is also a resource at https://publicdata.au/d/<slug>/fields.json, which lists its fields with their types, the publisher's descriptions, their ranges and the values they hold, so an agent can read a dataset's shape before it writes a query.
What changed
One version for every release the publisher has made since this site started following the dataset. The date is the day the file changed on the portal.
- 2026-07-21 340 rows12 fieldsutf-8-sig342be5b94ccc
versions.json · changes.json · history.tar.zst (12 KB, every version's Parquet and manifest)
Questions
How do I download Public library branch statistics as a CSV file?
Open https://publicdata.au/d/qld-public-library-branch-statistics/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/qld-public-library-branch-statistics/v/2026-07-21/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, NDJSON, Arrow. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same.
Can I open Public library branch statistics in Excel?
Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-public-library-branch-statistics/v/2026-07-21/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 340 rows on a records sheet, the field list on a second sheet and the provenance on a third. The CSV also opens in Excel. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-public-library-branch-statistics/v/2026-07-21/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size.
What years does Public library branch statistics cover?
The current version covers 1929 to 2023. Each release from SLQ becomes a new dated version here, and earlier versions stay online.
How often is Public library branch statistics updated?
SLQ releases it annually. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes.
Can I use Public library branch statistics commercially?
Yes. CC BY 4.0 allows commercial use, redistribution and derived works as long as the attribution is kept. The attribution string is in this page's side column and inside every file.
Is this the official source for Public library branch statistics?
No. The publisher is State Library of Queensland, and its page is https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/slq-qld-public-libraries-annual-statistics. This site republishes the publisher's file without changing its content. The original sits beside every version as source.csv with its SHA-256, so the two can be compared.
What this site did to the data. Cells were typed, headers were renamed and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. The publisher's file sits beside every version as source.csv so the change can be checked.
The publisher releases Queensland public libraries as 3 files at once, so all 3 tables here share a version date.