Queensland Public Library Member and Borrowing Record

Public library member (borrower, patron) records held by Queensland councils, which may run library facilities as a local government function under the Libraries Act 1988 s 54: membership applications and registrations, member profiles and exports from the library management system, junior member records with parent or guardian consent, borrowing and loan histories, holds and reservations, and overdue notices. The Libraries Act has no member-privacy provision; confidentiality rests on the Information Privacy Act 2009 and council policy. Reading history can reveal political, religious, health and sexuality interests, and junior member records hold children's data. Library policies, conditions of membership, catalogue records and news are decoys.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium: library member, borrower and loan-history wording is distinctive for library systems, but the same phrases appear in library policies, help pages and membership conditions, and library card number formats are vendor-specific (commonly 14-digit Codabar barcodes, unverified), so enforce tiers need populated member plus contact or loan fields. 85/75 are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy; test values are synthetic.
Jurisdictions: au, au-qld
Regulations: Libraries Act 1988 (Qld), Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld)
Frameworks: QGISCF
Data categories: pii, contact-information
Scope: narrow
Risk rating: 5
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:library\s+(?:members?(?:hip)?|borrowers?|patrons?|cards?|accounts?)(?:\s+(?:records?|details|profiles?|applications?|registrations?|forms?|number|no\.?|ID|history|list|reports?|exports?))?|borrower\s+(?:records?|details|profiles?|history|number|no\.?|ID|barcode)|patron\s+(?:records?|details|history|barcode|ID)|(?:loan|borrowing|circulation)\s+history|items?\s+(?:on\s+loan|overdue|borrowed)|overdue\s+(?:items?|notices?|loans?))\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

branch, overdue, renewal, holds, reservation, junior member, fines, due date, loans, library

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

Library member record - Riverside Branch Member name: Priya Teston Library card number: 23401004517826 Address: 18 Jacaranda Street, Gympie QLD 4570 Mobile: 0413 555 207 Items on loan: 4 Holds: 2 Fines owing: $3.60 — Member profile with name, card number, address, mobile, loans, holds and fines (85 tier)
Borrowing history export Borrower: Nathan Staffson Title: Living with Crohn's Disease, due date: 02/10/2026 Title: Leaving a Violent Relationship, returned: 15/09/2026 Renewal limit reached on one item. — Borrowing history showing sensitive reading topics (85 tier)
Library membership application - junior member. Parent/guardian name: Kylie Teston. Consent given for internet access. — Junior membership with a populated guardian field (75 tier)
Overdue notice: the following items are overdue. Item barcode: 30041002297154, due 12/09/2026. — Overdue notice with item barcode only (75 tier)

Should not match

Library membership is free for anyone who lives, works or studies in the region. Members are responsible for all items borrowed on their library card and must report a lost card promptly. See our conditions of membership. — Library membership policy
Title: The Great Barrier Reef: A Natural History Call number: 578.789 GRE Copies available: 3 of 5 Place a hold to be notified when an item is returned. Items on loan show their due date. — Catalogue record (catalogue exclusion)
Library Membership Application - blank template Member name: ____________ Address: ____________ Library card number: ____________ Parent/guardian name: ____________ — Blank membership form
Council libraries issued 1.2 million loans in 2025-26 and cleared overdue fines for all library members under the new fine-free policy, the mayor announced. — News and statistics (65 only)

Known false positives

Library policies, help pages and conditions of membership name members, cards, loans and overdue items. Mitigation: Enforce tiers need populated member, contact or loan fields; a policy exclusion suppresses conditions of membership and policy wording.
Catalogue records and search results with titles and due dates. Mitigation: A catalogue exclusion (call number, place a hold, copies available, catalogue record) suppresses them; catalogue pages also rarely carry a member primary.
Overdue reminder emails that include only item titles. Mitigation: These reach 75 with a title or barcode. They are personal information about a borrower's reading and are in scope; deploy at 85 if volume is a concern.