For Small Business

Are you a small business owner? Do you aim to start your own small business?

CityLibraries can help you to access a wide range of books, magazines, audiovisual, and electronic resources to help you achieve your business goals.

Onsite Resources

Visit any of our branch libraries to browse books, magazines, and films on business management skills including:

Online Resources

You can access the Internet at our branch and mobile libraries. There are many useful free resources for starting and running a small business which are available online.

• Advisory and Support Services
• Copyright, Patents, Trademarks, and Registered Business Names
• Directories
• Information Services
• Legislation
• Standards
• Statistics
• Subject Gateways

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Advisory and Support Services

• Ausindustry
• Austrade
• Australian Taxation Office
• Business (Federal Government)
• Department of Tourism, Regional Development and Industry (Queensland Government)
• Innovation Internet
• Regional Entry Point
• Smart License (Queensland Government)
• Smart Small Business (Queensland Government)
• Townsville Enterprise

Copyright

• ASIC Free Company Name Search
• Australian Copyright Council
• Copyright Agency Limited
• IP Australia

Directories

• Townsville Business Directory (Townsville Enterprise)
• Townsville Community Directory (Community Information Centre)
• White Pages (Telstra)
• Yellow Pages (Telstra)

Information Services

• Ask Now (National Library of Australia)
• Ask Us (State Library of Queensland)
• CityLibraries
• CityLibraries - Corporate Library
• GOBiS : Government Business Information Service (Queensland Government)
• Community Information Centre

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Legislation

• Australian Law Online (Attorney General’s Department)
• ComLaw : Commonwealth Law (Attorney-General’s Department)
• Queensland Legislation (Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel)

Standards

• Australian and International standards can be purchased from SAI Global
• Australian Standards may also be accessed online at any branch of CityLibraries. Printing costs apply.

Statistics

• Australian Bureau of Statistics
• Office of Economical and Statistical Research, Queensland Treasury
• Planning Information and Forecasting Unit (Qld. Local Government and Planning)
• Research and Statistics (Tourism Australia)
• Reserve Bank of Australia
• Statistics: selected websites (National Library of Australia)

Subject Gateways

• Information for Importers (State Library of Queensland)
• Information for Inventors (State Library of Queensland)
• Information for Small and Micro Business (State Library of Queensland)
• Netlinks for Commerce (State Library of Queensland)
• Subject Guides (National Library of Australia)

For more information, please contact CityLibraries.

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