Library Services from DPI collections

Department of Primary Industries information resources and publications are now included in the Victorian Government Library Service collection.
You can use the Victorian Government Library Service catalogue to search for a broad range of information resources relating to agriculture, conservation, land management, energy and resources.

You can arrange to borrow unrestricted items by contacting your public, academic or workplace library.

Services for librarians are included in the link above.

If you require any further help in accessing the collections, please email the Victorian Government Library Service, vgls@dtf.vic.gov.au

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Virtual Exhibition

You can access a selection of digitised images from photographs, from the 1800's and early 1900's, held by the Department of Primary Industries and the Department of Sustainability and Environment.

Virtual Exhibition categories

• 1939 Bushfires
• The Better Farming Train
• Butter Factories
• Forest Timber
• Giant trees
• Gold Diggers
• Gold Mines
• Mineral Springs
• National Parks
• Royal Melbourne Show
• Settlement
• Working in the Forest

Reproductions may be ordered from our by emailing library.service@dpi.vic.gov.au. Reproduction fees apply.

Photographs from the Gold Mines or Gold Diggers categories can be viewed at our Information Centre.