State Library Victoria acknowledges the traditional lands of all the Victorian Aboriginal clans, and their cultural practices and knowledge systems. We recognise that our collections hold traditional cultural knowledge belonging to Indigenous communities in Victoria and around the country. We support communities to protect the integrity of this information, gathered from their Ancestors in the colonial period. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present, who have handed down these systems of practice to each new generation for millennia

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[fighnd-ing ayd] /fʌɪndɪŋ eɪd/

A term used in archival science referring to a document that summarises an archive's structure and contents, for the purpose of helping users find specific information within a collection. This technology dates back thousands of years, and has been in use at least since the time of the ancient Sumerians.