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Library's Offsite Collection Unavailable from September
22 July 2005
The State Library of Victoria is moving its offsite collection to a new purpose-built storage facility in Ballarat. While the collection is being prepared, there will be no access to the offsite collection from 3 September until Easter 2006.
The Library's offsite collection consists of:
- hard-copy newspapers
- bound serials and magazines, mostly pre-1976
- interstate and international government publications
- some patents and trademarks
- part of the Australian Manuscripts collection.
While the offsite collection is unavailable, staff will help Library users find alternative sources of information where possible, including finding a copy of an item held at another library or finding information in another format.
During this time, Library users who require assistance finding information should go to the main desk in the Information Centre at the Library, or telephone 03 8664 7002.
Material from the onsite collections - including frequently used books, recent journals etc - will be available as usual.
Why are we moving the Library's offsite collection?
What items will be unavailable?
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