Location and Opening Hours : Queensland Family History Society Inc. (QFHS)

Our Library, Bookshop and Resource Centre

You'll find us at 58 Bellevue Avenue, GAYTHORNE, a northside suburb of Brisbane. Please note that this is not a lending library except for selected journals and publications that go on circuit to our Queensland country members residing outside a 50 Km radius from the Brisbane GPO. This is known as the Journal Loan Scheme (JLS).

All Users pay…

A small fee for their printouts and photocopies, computer disks etc. You pay the duty library assistant before you leave.

Financial Members…

Enjoy unrestricted access to all available resources including use of all equipment and facilities free of cost.

Reciprocal Membership

Non-Brisbane residents who are financial members of a society with whom we have a reciprocal arrangement -

enjoy visiting rights and unrestricted use of our library and resources free of cost, similar in all respects to QFHS financial members.

QFHS financial members who do not reside locally in the city of a society with whom we have a reciprocal arrangement -

enjoy visiting rights and unrestricted use of the other society's library and resources free of cost, similar in all respects to their financial members.

Reciprocal visitors will be expected, on arrival, to produce to the duty library assistant -

satisfactory evidence of residency and
current membership of a participating society when registering to use the library.

QFHS enjoys reciprocity with these societies -

*As of 1 July 2005 SAGHS members swipe a perpetual plastic membership card through a reader to access their library. The new card does not display an expiry date and therefore SAGHS members wishing to access the QFHS library under the reciprocal arrangements between the two societies will need to obtain a letter of introduction on SAGHS letterhead prior to their visit at Gaythorne.

Associate Group Membership

Financial members of an Associate Group having a current membership with QFHS enjoy visiting rights and may use our library and resources free of cost provided that -

no more than two members per Associate Group use the library at any one time unless by prior arrangement, and
bookings for the use of microfilm machines and/or computers are made no less than one week in advance of the visit.

Bookings may be made -

direct to the library coordinator
by mail
by e-mail.

No bookings - no guarantees!

Associate Group visitors will be expected, on arrival, to produce to the duty library assistant -

satisfactory evidence of current membership of their society when registering to use our library.

QFHS members do not enjoy reciprocal visiting rights and will need to pay the appropriate non-member entrance fee, if requested, by the Associate Group societies

Visitors and Unfinancial QFHS Members …

Pay an entrance fee of (from 1 July 2006), $7.50 per hour (minimum) or $15 per session extending beyond one hour (rates include GST). A rebate of the amount paid will apply if, at the end of two weeks, an application is made for membership of our Society.

Any friends or relatives accompanying a visitor to the library with the intention of assisting with research, must -

produce satisfactory evidence of current membership of either QFHS or a group with whom we have a Reciprocal or Associate Group membership arrangement, or
pay the visitor's entrance fee.

Parking

Ample free car parking is available in Bellevue Avenue. Limited parking is reserved for duty Library Assistants and management committee members behind the library. One reserved parking bay is available (maximum 4 hours) to holders of a Blue Disabled Parking Permit in Bellevue Avenue at the main entrance.

Bus & Train

Within easy walking distance of the Gaythorne railway station, Samford Road, Pickering Street and Brookside Shopping Centre.

A train or a Mitchelton bus (361) to Gaythorne Railway Station is recommended. Another option is the Everton Park bus (360) and alight at the Brookside shopping centre. Also don't forget the fabulous Great Circle Line (598 and 599) – alight at either Brookside Shopping Centre (a short walk to Bellevue Avenue) or at Pickering West stop (216 Pickering Street) and walk the short distance westerly along Pickering Street to Lade Street, then into Bellevue Avenue to #58. Further details of rail and bus services available here and here.

TRANSLink's integrated ticketing system offers easy inter modal transfers using BT buses, BCC ferries, Hornibrook Bus Lines, Thompson Bus Services, National Bus Co., Mt Gravatt Bus Service, Logan City Bus Service, Caboolture Bus Lines, Kangaroo Bus Lines, Bribie Island Coaches, Park Ridge Bus Lines, Westside Bus Co., Sunshine Coast Sunbus, Surfside Buslines and QR Citytrain to Gaythorne (Zone 3) at no additional cost. TRANSInfo has all the details you need to know to travel from as far north as Noosa, south-west to Toogoolawah and Helidon and south to Tweed Heads.

Gaythorne railway station is on the Ferny Grove line. QR provides a regular service on weekdays; at weekends the service is less frequent.

Disabled Access

The library is disability access friendly including unisex toilet. One reserved parking bay is available (maximum 4 hours) to Blue Card holders in Bellevue Avenue at the main entrance.

Library Equipment : Usage and Malfunctions

(A polite request): Please take care when using equipment in the Library. Sometimes equipment faults are caused by mishandling or carelessness. For example:

a broken fan might be due to unnecessary pressure on the controls, and
the photocopier might jam for the unsuspecting operator if not cleared by a previous user.

Some donated equipment is often near impossible to repair due to age and unavailability of replacement parts. In these situations, there is no alternative but to dispose of unserviceable items (to the detriment of members and users of the Library). Should you become aware of faulty equipment please advise the duty Library Assistant so it can be checked as quickly as possible.

Telephone

A small charge applies for private use of the telephone for outward calls. See a Library Assistant. See other details for the library telephone number.

Journal Loan Scheme returns to this post office …

Library Opening Hours (all Eastern Standard Time)

Sat	Sun	Mon	Tue, Wed, Thur
1pm - 4pm	1st, 2nd, 3rd	7pm - 9pm	10am - 3pm
	10am - 4pm
	4th, 5th
	1pm - 4pm
Closed Fridays, all public holidays except Exhibition Wednesday in August, and for one month over the Christmas/New Year holiday period

Location Map

58 Bellevue Avenue (off Lade Street)
between Pickering and Pendine Streets
See UBD map 138, grid reference N7

Computer Equipment

The Society is continually upgrading and installing additional computer equipment to provide members with free access to email and the Internet. With the growth of computer-based genealogical data, this method of researching your family history is proving a real boon to members.

Existing research resources have also been greatly expanded with the purchase of a large number of CD-ROMs, giving the Society one of the largest genealogical CD-ROM collections in Australia.

The library and resource centre also now provides desktop publishing equipment for the benefit of members wishing to turn their manuscript into an award winning, professionally printed version of your family's history. Try it out soon.

Details of all library additions (print and microform) are published in the Society’s quarterly journal, Queensland Family Historian.