businesses from start up through to end

Transport   bus, train and ferry routes, zones and timetables, journey planner, traffic

congestion maps

About Brisbane   lifestyle, culture, business, history, heritage, economic facts

Chat   communicate with groups who share your interests

News   international, national, Brisbane/Qld, finance, sport and entertainment

Council online services   e tendering, dog registration, utilities, fines

Entertainment   festivals and events, entertainment news, cinema schedules and movie

reviews, television guides, gig guide

Employment   job search, career resources, recruiter profiles, company profiles

Weather   Brisbane, South East Coast, warnings and alerts

Sport   national competition sports news/live scores and results, fixtures, profiles and

links

Government information links

Education and learning links

Tourist information

Ourbrisbane is a collection of strategies, one of which is the portal. The others are: 

Communities' online strategy

The Carole Park Community Centre is an example of this strategy. Carole Park is a

low income area of Brisbane, traditionally under serviced and suffering from high

unemployment and low educational standards. The Centre has received funding to 

purchase computers and deliver Internet training on site. A librarian is seconded to this

project one day a week. It is being used as a model for other communities to follow.

Other examples of Library Services  involvement in this strategy are:

  eLibCat   the online public access catalogue 

  52 percent of all holds are now placed by customers.

  20 percent of renewals are done by customers over the Internet.

  Staff train 2,500 people a week informally on how to use eLibCat.

  online book club

  messaging   67,000 customers, 20 percent of the customer base are now receiving all

their notifications by e mail, enabling more effective and efficient communication.

Library services also use inbound and outbound telemessaging.

  The Ask a Librarian e mail reference service has grown from 30 to 200 a month since

March 2000.

  encouraging customers to go online with an ourbrisbane.com e mail address

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