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The website portal is managed by Australian company, BiblioQuest International, and grants mining and engineering professionals preferred access to the online book search engine BibliOZ The Book Search Wizard and related services.

Each year BiblioQuest International processes more than 1.5 million book search requests through its online booksearch engine and many thousands of calls through its telephone service centre.

BiblioQuest Director, Paul McShane says that being based in Australia, with one of the world's most advanced mining engineering industries, has prompted such a specialization but that the service was being made available to any qualified customer globally.

"We already have many professionals and institutions in the Australian mining sector making use of our booksearch system to locate technical titles that are no longer in print or are hard-to-find" he said.

"As a BibliOZ.com Preferred Professional Client, the customer is automatically given discounts of at least 10% on all purchases from our massive 40-plus million book database and they also obtain access to a vast library of bibliographies of out-of-print, collectible and technical books, monographs, periodicals maps and charts," he said.

"Aside from this special access to the BibliOZ.com online service, Preferred Professional Clients can instead opt to use BiblioQuest's customer service center and have our staff assist with the searching without having to pay the usual telephone order processing fee."

"The portal page at BibliOZ Mining Book Search and BibliOZ Engineering Book Search has an access code to register as a Preferred Professional Client, as well as more information on the benefits of using the BibliOZ.com service and sample searches related to these industry sectors."

Preferred Professional Clients can also make use of the BibliOZ.com website to find books other than technical and professional texts, and it is a great resource for any reader, hobbyist, sporting fan or the like. BiblioOZ.com also offers search capabilities in other professional areas related to engineering such as management, human resources and finance.

"The real benefit of being a BiblioQuest Preferred Professional Client is the high level of personalised service that is available in addition to the website resources - for example we have freecall telephone customer support available on extended hours - and offer our customers both reliability and time-saving," said McShane.

"These new professional portals complement existing ones we have created for the medical, dental and pharmaceutical sectors", he said.

"Experts are predicting that the mining boom in Australia will continue in 2007, with respected forecasters IBISWorld estimating that 8 out of the top 10 industries by value-added growth will come from the mining sector."

"While much depends on China's continued development, the levels of investment in Australian mining and related engineering will attract research and general interest from professionals within the industry, investors and many seeking employment in that lucrative sector," he said.

BibliOZ.com features thousands of items that have a keyword reference to mining and engineering topics, ranging from books valued at thousands of dollars, such as 16th century treatises on minerals and metallurgy or 19th century civil engineering handbooks to introductory engineering textbooks costing less than $10.

Established in 1994, BiblioQuest is headquartered in Australia and has a customer base that numbers in the tens of thousands.

It has telephone customer support centers available through Australia 1800 067 877, New Zealand 0800 771 773 and internationally +61 2 4861 7666

The BibliOZ,com Book Search Wizard website was launched in early 2001 and provides the online out-of-print service for major book chains and dozens of independent bookstores.

Other BibliOZ portal pages for professionals can be found at BibliOZ Book Search for Dentists, BibliOZ Book Search for Doctors and BibliOZ Book Search for Pharmacists