Welcome to Jessie Street National Women's Library

February newsletter

Read about our Weaving Women's Stories competition

Annual General Meeting 2009

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Our mission:

Our mission is to provide for the Australian community a specialist library which collects, preserves and promotes the awareness of the cultural heritage of Australian women, facilitating learning, research and communication.

Our aims:

To collect the published and unpublished materials that document the lives and experience of women of all ethnic, racial and religious backgrounds and of all socio-economic classes.
To ensure that documents relating to Australian women's lives and activities are preserved and made accessible.
To highlight the contribution of Australian women to this country's development.
To support the field of women's history.