The Genealogy Centre of the State Library of Victoria will be closed for essential building work from Tuesday 26 February to Saturday 2 March 2013 inclusive. It will reopen at 10am on Sunday 3 March.

During this time the following genealogy services will be available in the Newspaper Reading Room on Level 2:

 -librarians to assist with enquiries from 10am to 4pm each weekday and from 10am to 6pm on Saturday

 -staff to retrieve Genealogy Centre collection items (other than microfilm) for you from 10.30am to 3.30pm on weekdays and from 10.30am to 5.30pm on Saturday

Access to computers and microfiche readers will be limited, so you may wish to defer your visits, although some information databases such as Digger indexes, Ancestry Library Edition and Find My Past are available on all other computers in the Library.

Databases only loaded onto specific computers in the Genealogy Centre will not be available.

We regret any inconvenience.