The Crow Collection

The Crow Collection at the Victoria University of Technology's Footscray Campus includes books and manuscripts (reports, working papers, talk aids and other material) which have been used and/or written by Ruth and Maurie Crow over the past fifty years.
		RUTH CROW
The Collection provides an historical overview of urban and labour issues. For example, it ranges from a comprehensive set of political pamphlets from the 1930s to documents on urban issues in the 1980s. A Crow Collection Association has been fo rmed and incorporated.
		MAURIE CROW

• The Catalogue
• Access to the Collection
• Planning for 21st Century Living Library Projects
• Some Quotes
• The Association's Aims
• For More Information...

• Books and periodicals
  
• Pamphlets
  
• Manuscripts (unpublished material).

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For example, funds from the Lance Reichstein Charitable Foundation enabled the Association to involve a number of organisations in a project on planning for children's services in the Western Region.

The Association is seeking sponsors for projects on:

• Linking the community movement and the trade movement
  
• Planning leisure activities for young people
  
• Local government and practical issues arising from thinking globally and acting locally
  
• Personal histories of women who have contributed to social change.

• Improving the flexibility and responsiveness of higher educational providers (especially in regard to under-represented groups)
• The social, cultural and community functions of Australian higher education (especially in regard to University Libraries)
• Some ways for the higher education system to contribute to Australia's society, culture and economy (giving special consideration to linking the university to the region in which it is located).

The Association is preparing resource material for the Expo On Housing which is being organised by a group brought together by the Housing Officer for the Moreland City Council. The Expo will be held in the Brunswick Town Hall on June 13-15th.

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You helped me gain a much better understanding of the many problems encountered when examining history. The primary sources you gave me and especially your own thoughts as a contrast to secondary and media representation became a focus of my essay. I was very grateful for your assistance. I for one owe a lot to the Crow Collection.
- A VCE student in 1993

Ecoso (the Crow Collection Association's newsletter) provides a lot of hard-to-get information relevant to anyone interested in the sustainable/ecology movements and tries to foster links between it and the trade unions. The information is varied and substantive ... a valiant effort to link history of urban reform, local government and the current movements for a sustainable, ecological society.
- Prof. Henry Mayer, 1990

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• Enhancing accessibility and comprehensiveness
  
• Promoting projects on planning for the 21st century
  
• Through such projects, helping individuals and organisations to build neighbourhood networks
  
• Providing archival material for student projects (from year 11 to post graduate).

Mark Armstrong-Roper
Information Service Librarian
Victoria University of Technology
Phone (03) 9688 4608

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