Welcome to Jessie Street National Women's Library
Current Newsletter
Twentieth Anniversary Luncheon
Monday 21 September
Parliament House, Macquarie Street, Sydney
Remembering Pine Gap
Jessie Street National Women's Library is holding an exhibition of the Pine Gap women's peace camp in 1983.
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- To collect the published and unpublished materials that document the lives and experience of women of all ethnic, racial and religious backgrounds and of all socio-economic classes.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.