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Online Catalogue – Women’s Archives Online
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Public Record Office Victoria (PROV), the National Foundation
for Australian Women and the University of Melbourne have collaborated to
develop a website that links together historical detail, archival resources,
published resources and current information about women in Victoria.
The website, First Ladies: Finding Women in Public Record
Office Victoria, www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/fl/firstladies.htm,
is an online guide to archival resources relating to women held at Public
Record Office Victoria. Published material such as PROV’s Ten Victorian
Women and the Australian Women’s Archive Project (AWAP) online register, www.womenaustralia.info/register_home.htm,
are key features on the website.
While the First Ladies website is supported by PROV and
provides information about PROV holdings, it is managed by AWAP project workers
located at the University of Melbourne. More information can be found on
the National Foundation for Australian Women and the Australian Women’s
Archive Project at the following sources:
National Foundation for Australian Women
The National Foundation for Australian Women www.nfaw.org, aims to advance and protect the
interests of Australian women and to ensure the aims, ideals and the collective
wisdom of the women's movement are handed on to new generations of women.
Australian Women’s Archive Project
The searchable online Register of the Archives Project is a
collection of biographical data about Australian women and their organisations,
with hyperlinks to their web-sites, and to the archival repositories where their
records are held. This Register is a joint project of the National Foundation
for Australian Women, and the History Department of the University of Melbourne.
The National Foundation for Australian Women, www.womenaustralia.info/contact_home.htm,
established the Archives Project in 2000, to encourage Australian women and
their organisations to preserve their records. This Register is one element of
the AWAP, as a finding tool for those records.