Public Record Office Despatch

Eighty-one community groups across Victoria will share in $355,000 in grants from the Victorian Government to help record and preserve their local stories and share them with future generations.

Announcing the grants, Mr Baillieu said the projects funded by the Local History Grants Program reflected the wealth of stories that chronicle the rich and diverse history of a great state.

“These grants will ensure the many amazing stories of our past are preserved and shared with the community,” Mr Baillieu said.

The Local History Grants Program is currently funded through the Victorian Government’s Community Support Fund, which provides small grants of up to $12,000 to community organisations to preserve, record, publish and present Victorian local history.

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The prize money for the annual Victorian Community History Awards, now in their thirteenth year, has been doubled in all categories – bringing the total prize pool to $20,000.

Presented by the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, the Victorian Community History Awards recognise the contributions made by Victorians to the preservation of Victoria’s heritage. The awards seek to encourage work that contributes to the development and appreciation of the history of Victoria and to develop awareness of best practice community history across Victoria.

Entries are judged on content and presentation with a view to encouraging innovative ways of recording community history across the state. The categories for 2011 are:

• Overall winner $5000
• Best collaborative community work $2000
• Best publication
  Commercial publication $2000
  Self or community publication $2000
• Best exhibition $2000
• Best community research, registers and records $4000
• Best Walk/Tour $2000
• Judges’ Discretionary Prize (if appropriate) $1000

For more information, including entry forms, visit the Royal Historical Society of Victoria or call 0437 837 019. Applications close Friday 19 August.
The Victorian Community History Awards are proudly funded by Public Record Office Victoria.

• From 1 July all photocopies can be retrieved from the information desk located just inside the Reading Room.
• From 1 August the Reading Room will be open from 10am to 4:30pm Monday to Friday and Saturday (when open). This is a small reduction in hours, but we’ve also changed our records retrieval process so that your records will now be available for viewing from 10am (previously 10.30am).
• There are now 2 digital cameras available for you to use free of charge to photograph your records. Just bring along your own USB, or purchase one in the reading room.
• From 1 August the microform reader printer as well as all reading room PCs will be equipped to save to USB.
• From 1 August photocopy requests will take 25 working days to fulfil.

We look forward to seeing you again soon in the Victorian Archives Centre’s Harry Nunn Reading Room.

Further information

• Contact us:
  T: +61 3 9348 5600
  E: enquiries@prov.vic.gov.au

VA 534 Department of State Forests
(Forests Commission) (1908 – 1983)

• VPRS 11563/P0007 General Correspondence Files, Annual Single Number System I (1973 – 1991)
• VPRS 14857/P0002 Compartment Register (1932 – 1940)

VA 538 Department of State Crown Lands and Survey (1857 – 1983)

• VPRS 749/P0002 Advance Files, Mallee Division (1921 – 1975)
• VPRS 1285/P0002 Register of Land Sales (1861 – 1890)
• VPRS 13434/P0002 Register of Applications, Sale, Section 42 Lands Acts 1884 and 1890, Sections 44 and 59 Land Act 1898 and Sections 47 and 54 Land Act 1901 (Sale District Survey Office (1902 – 1910)
• VPRS 13443/P0002 Register of Applications, Sale, Other Sections Land Acts, 1884, 1890, 1891, 1898 and 1901 (Occupation Branch) (1905 – 1907)
• VPRS 13572/P0002 Register of Applications Sale, Section 29 Land Act 1898 and Section 35 Land Act 1901 (Occupation Branch) (1907 – 1976)
• VPRS 14857/P0002 Compartment Register (1932 – 1940)
• VPRS 16661/P0001 Meeting Minutes and Cash Book, Rainbow Plantation Committee (1951 – 1990)
• VPRS 16662/P0001 Expenditure Account, Gippsland District (1926 – 1932)
• VPRS 16663/P0001 Lithographer Plan Book, Sale (1898 – 1979)
• VPRS 16664/P0001 Orders for Survey, Gippsland (1910 – 1925) 

VA 1034 Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands (1983 - 1990)

• VPRS 14565/P0005 General Correspondence Files, Annual Single Number System II (1983 – 1994)
• VPRS 14565/P0006 General Correspondence Files, Annual Single Number System II (1987 – 1995)
• VPRS 14565/P0007 General Correspondence Files, Annual Single Number System II (1934 – 2005)

VA 1056 Soil Conservation Authority (1940 - 1987)

• VPRS 14747/P0003 Other Photographs (1974 – 1985)
• VPRS 16641/P0002 General Correspondence Files, Alpha Numeric (1950 – 1988)
• VPRS 16654/P0001 Subject Correspondence Files, Numeric, Alpha Numeric, Charlton District (1947 – 1984)
• VPRS 16656/P0001 General Correspondence Files, Multiple Number System, Charlton District (1963 – 1968)
• VPRS 16657/P0001 Publicity Files, Unregistered, Charlton District (1960 – 1985)
• VPRS 16658 Studies and Management Plans on improving land and water resources, Research Division (1954? – 2001)
• VPRS 16659/P0001 Soil Management Programs, Photographic Slides, Charlton District (1977 – 1985)
• VPRS 16660/P0001 Map Collection, Single Number System (1960 – 1983)

VA 2338 Rural Water Commission
(1984 – 1992)

• VPRS 6008/P0017 General Correspondence Files, Annual Single Number System (1942 – 1998)
• VPRS 16690/P0001 General Correspondence Files, Two Number System (1988)

VA 2354 Department of Water Resources (1984 – 1990)

• VPRS 16689/P0001 General Correspondence Files, Single Number System (1988 – 1990)

VA 2426 East Loddon (Road District & Shire) (1864 – 1995)

• VPRS 16552/P0001 Rate Books (1864 – 1953)
• VPRS 16553/P0001 Rate Cards (1954 – 1985)

VA 2549 Supreme Court of Victoria (1852 – cont.)

• VPRS 283/P0004 Divorce Case Files, Melbourne (1918 – 1936)
• VPRS 12024/P0004 Companies and Miscellaneous Application Files (1957 – 1969)
• VPRS 13033/P0004 Company Application Files (1948 – 1975)

VA 2645 Alpine Resorts Commission (1984 – 1998)

• VPRS 12952/P000 General Correspondence Files, Single Number System (1981 – 2002)
• VPRS 16454/P0004 Records of the Alpine Resorts Commission (1984 – 1986)

VA 3744 Department of Agriculture, Energy and Minerals (1995 – 1996)

• VPRS 9603/P0001 General Correspondence Files (RMS System) (1949 – 1999)

VA 3972 Department of Natural Resources and Environment (1996 – 2002)

• VPRS 16653/P0001 Meeting Minutes, Natural Resource Systems Pty Ltd (1995 – 1998)

VA 4926 Maldon I (1858 – 1863)
VPRS 16651/P0001 Council Minutes (Microfilm Copy of VPRS 16190/P0002 (1858 – 1900)

Monday 4 July to Friday 15 July
Film Festival: Black Screen film program
North Melbourne
Tuesday 5 July
Seminar: Researching Koorie Records
North Melbourne
Saturday 9 July
Victorian Archives Centre saturday opening
North Melbourne
Thursday 21 July
Seminar: Introduction to the collection
North Melbourne
Thursday 21 July
Workshop: Digitisation
Ballarat
Friday 22 July
Workshop: Digitisation
Ballarat
Friday 29 July
Launch: National Family History Week
North Melbourne
Saturday 30 July
Victorian Archives Centre Saturday opening
North Melbourne
Monday 1 August
Family History Feast at State Library of Victoria
Melbourne
Wednesday 3 August
Seminar: Researching Your Family History
Ballarat
Thursday 4 August
Seminar: Researching Your Family History
North Melbourne

Further information

• For all events and bookings visit http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/whats-on