LIBRARY HOLDINGS
The Warrnambool Family History Group Inc. maintains a comprehensive resource library located in the Mechanics Institute Building at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum, 89 Merri Street, Warrnambool. The Museum is open between 9.30 am and 4.30 pm daily.

ENTRY TO FLAGSTAFF HILL FOR RESEARCHERS
Those wishing to visit the Mechanic's Institute only at Flagstaff Hill (for Research and other associated activities) do not have to pay normal, full entry fees to the facility. Make your intentions known at Reception. If you possess suitable identification linking you with the AIGS or other Genealogical Group then please present it at this time. You will then be issued with some form of visible identification (still to be finalised) so that Staff can monitor your movements within Flagstaff Hill. Under these circumstances, you need only pay a Researcher entry fee of $2.00.
More details later as procedures are finalised (we are all still learning to "live" together at 'The Hill').

The library is staffed by members of the Group who participate in a volunteer roster.

Contact the reception desk at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum on 1800 556 111. Museum staff can advise when the library will be open to the public. Or, you can call the Mechanics Institute (where Warrnambool Family History Group Inc. is located) direct on (03) 5561 0283 where you can talk to someone from the Group or leave a message on the answering machine.

The library contains a large collection of books, journals and newsletters in hardcopy form. A large collection of microfiche and microfilms is also maintained. A catalog of the holdings may be purchased, refer publications page for details of price etc

The Reference Library also contains a major collection of maritime resource material belonging to the Museum that may be accessed whilst in the library.

Microfiche readers and a microfilm reader are available (no printing facilities available) for public use.

A number of computers are also available to aid research, with an ever growing collection of CDROM's containing family history databases from Australia and around the world also available for research. In the near future, online access to the Web will also be provided thus making available many more avenues for research.

FEES
Non members of the Warrnambool Family History Group Inc. may use the resources of the library upon payment of a fee of $5.00 which is used to fund the acquisition of more resources.

Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum may request a fee of $2.00 to use the Reference Library. This fee does not go to the Warrnambool Family History Group Inc.