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March Meeting Minutes now available

April 8, 2021 - April 8, 2021 Liz Pidgeon

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Collecting your environment

March 30, 2021 - April 8, 2021 Liz Pidgeon

I am looking for a speaker for the upcoming Wider Local Studies Seminar set for Thursday 17 June. It has the theme of capturing/recording changes to the environment and biodiversity.
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Ancestry Library Edition – remote access extended until 30 June 2021!

March 23, 2021 - March 23, 2021 Liz Pidgeon

PLV have advised that access to Ancestry Library Edition has been temporarily expanded to library cardholders working remotely, courtesy of ProQuest and its partner Ancestry. Remote access will be available
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Microfiche Collection

January 14, 2021 Liz Pidgeon

Are there any libraries maintaining microfiche collections? We have finally withdrawn ours. I have an offer of a donation of a significant collection including the old IGIs, Cemetery records, Convict
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Remote access to Ancestry Library Edition extended

December 17, 2020 Liz Pidgeon

Victorian public Libraries and our communities have benefited by providing remote access to Ancestry Library Edition this year. Normally this is a e-resource that can only be accessed in the
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Increasing visibility of SLV collection on Wikipedia

November 5, 2020 Liz Pidgeon

Carmen Quick, Genealogy Librarian at State Library Victoria recently reported on the Wikipedia project, staff were working on while working from home.  I asked her to send through some examples
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Local Studies in Lockdown

November 2, 2020 - November 2, 2020 Liz Pidgeon

The October meeting highlighted many behind the scenes activities that local studies staff have been working on in 2020.  In addition to updating policies and procedures, answering research queries and
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Supporting Local History Groups

October 21, 2020 Liz Pidgeon

First published at Yarra Plenty Regional Library, 12 December, 2018 I recently attended a half day seminar presented by Museums Australia (Victoria) on supporting Local History Groups. The seminar was primarily
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PROV Visit 2019

October 21, 2020 Liz Pidgeon

Public Libraries Victoria Local Studies staff  met at Public Record Office Victoria and were given an update on what’s new at Victoria’s State Archives by Access Service Officers Sarah and Heather.  Their
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New Trove available

July 6, 2020 Liz Pidgeon

A favourite resource for local and family historians and just the curious, Trove brings together a vast range of collections from almost 1,000 cultural, community and research organisations all over Australia. It
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