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Please note: some catalogue services will be unavailable from 5.30pm 14 February to 10am 16 February 2013 due to a service upgrade.
eResources
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Research guides
Our research guides are created by expert librarians to help you get the most from the Library's collections.
Australiana index
Search for references to Victorian biographical and local history sources.
Please note: this index will be unavailable from 5.30pm 14 February to 10am 16 February 2013 due to a catalogue upgrade.
Family history indexes
Useful resources for genealogists include the:
Selected digitised collections
Search our suite of selected digitised collections, or browse them by year, issue or unit:
- Football record (read about this resource)
- Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria (read about this resource)
- Victorian Historical Journal (read about this resource)
- World War I unit histories (read about this resource)
Search and browse our Victoria Government Gazette archive.

