Queensland’s Redland Shire Council unveiled a new library management system in August that allows people to access Council’s library services online, any time, from anywhere in the world by the Internet.
Mayor Don Seccombe said people can search the catalogue from home, work, or school, place online requests, check their personal account, save catalogue search results and compile bibliographies. Red e cat is the public link of the Redland Shire Library Service’s new online library management system.
“It takes Redland’s library services in new directions, particularly our reference services, and it enables us to move towards the ‘virtual library’,” the Mayor said. “We are very confident it will be well received and widely used by community.
Over the next few months, new library services will include the power to search international databases from the Red e cat catalogue.
“Council has promised better services, stronger management, more value for money, and today we are delivering on that promise,” Councillor Seccombe said. “Introducing the new library management system fits nicely into our corporate plan and it provides an updated and more efficient management tool for library day to day business. It increases our service to the public and caters for the needs of our diverse community.
“Red e cat has a very visible presence through Council’s web site, displaying a distinctive red and white coloured logo on the library web page. Residents are excited about Red e cat and its capabilities and are already using the flexibility and great features of this new facility.”
