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Koorie Records Unit About KRU The Koorie Records Unit promotes Aboriginal records within PROV’s collection and improves the accessibility of these records. It also builds links between PROV and a range of Indigenous community organisations through outreach and education and training activities. The Koorie Records Unit can provide advice and assistance for researchers wishing to access records about Aboriginal people in PROV’s collection. You might want to start your research by consulting the Koorie People and Places research pathway through our online catalogue. Another useful resource is My Heart is Breaking: a joint guide to records about Aboriginal people in PROV and NAA. This can be found at PROV Reading Rooms, or purchased. A series of workshops designed to increase awareness of the range of Koorie records in PROV custody, and to make those records as accessible as possible to Aboriginal people, is the latest outreach initiative from PROV’s Koorie Records Unit (KRU).
Developed in response to recommendations contained in the Wilam Naling… Knowing Who You Are report, released in May 2006, the free two-day workshops include an overview of the Koorie records at PROV, together with practical guidance on how to access them; a discussion of the Stolen Generations; presentations by Aboriginal people who have used a PROV reading room; and perspectives on key records management and conservation issues.
Workshops have already been held at Lakes Entrance, Warrnambool, Mildura, Swan Hill and Ballarat and over the coming months KRU staff will visit the following regional centres:
In conjunction with its KRU workshop program, PROV is making a number of small grants available to Koorie organisations and non-government record-holders actively engaged in the preservation of the records of Aboriginal people. All organisations wishing to apply for one of these grants must complete a KRU workshop. For more information, or to register for a workshop, please contact: Simon Flagg
New PROV/NAA publication about an Aboriginal family's struggle for survival
Link to Footprints brochure and order form Koorie Records Unit Newsletter Twice-yearly newsletter from the Koorie Records Unit Issue 2: Link
to June 2008 newsletter Improving access to records of the Stolen Generations: a report to
the Victorian Government from the Victorian Koorie Records Taskforce This project is a partnership between PROV and Aboriginal Affairs Victoria,
to address the recommendations from Chapter 16 of Bringing Them Home
relating to archives and records. The report, released in June 2006, puts forward a new framework to improve
access to records held by Victorian government and non-government agencies. For more information contact the Koorie Records Unit: Simon Flagg Resource manual to the records of the Stolen Generations in Victoria Finding Your Story has been produced by Aboriginal Affairs Victoria,
Public Record Office Victoria and the Victorian Koorie Records Taskforce
as a reference tool for individual Indigenous Victorians seeking information
on their separation. It will also assist agencies continuing to help the
Stolen Generations on their journey of discovery and healing. For more information contact the Koorie Records Unit: Simon Flagg The Victorian Koorie Records Taskforce was established by the Victorian
Government in 2001, in response to Recommendation 23 of the 1997 report
of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Straight
Islander Children from their Families (the Bringing Them Home
report). The Taskforce’s terms of reference are to: For more information, please contact the Executive Officer of the Taskforce: Simon Flagg The Koorie Records Unit has embarked on an indexing project to improve
accessibility to PROV’s Aboriginal records. Stay tuned for more
news about this project. Simon Flagg Joint NAA/PROV Koorie Reference Officer |
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