Please Note: We are in the process of transferring records from the local history database to the library catalogue. Please check both places to be sure you have searched the whole local history collection. 

An index to local and family history material held in both Melbourne Library Service collections and other locations. Covers a range of paper-based records (or microfilmed copies) including books, newspapers, journal articles, directories, unpublished essays and typescripts, theses, brochures, ephemera and images not available for viewing online. Indexes to the Carlton and East Melbourne collections are currently not available online.

Picture Victoria
Looking for images of local history in Victoria? Picture Victoria is a great place to begin! The primary focus of Picture Victoria is to provide a single portal for access to pictorial and photographic collections held in Victoria's public libraries.