Places of Deposit

Not all public records are stored in Melbourne. PROV stores records that are to be kept permanently in special repositories at the Victorian Archives Centre in North Melbourne (our main repository), at Ballarat and at Geelong.

In addition to its core collection, which consists of records deemed significant for the State of Victoria as a whole, PROV helps to manage a network of smaller regional collections that are of local significance that would not normally be kept permanently at PROV.

Through its certification process, PROV has appointed many local archives across Victoria as Places of Deposit (PODs). PODs are community facilities that meet the storage standards required by PROV to preserve records of significance to local communities.

State Government records in a POD remain under the control of PROV. Agencies wishing to place records into PODs must obtain approval from PROV. For further information on the POD certification process please contact:

Margaret Sawyers
Regional Archivist
Public Record Office Victoria
Ph: + 61 3 9348 5600
E-mail: margaret.sawyers@prov.vic.gov.au

Certified Places Of Deposit

The following is an alphabetical list of Places of Deposit that may hold records of interest to local researchers. Details on the record holdings of any PODs are available where the organisation name appears on this page as a hyperlink:

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