WSRC Needs Your Help!

The Facts

The Women’s Studies Resource Centre (WSRC) is the first & largest women’s library in the southern hemisphere, comprising a diverse & comprehensive range of more than 20,000 non-fiction and fiction resources by women and/or about women & relating to gender issues.
The WSRC is a not-for-profit organisation that has contributed to the practical promotion of gender equity and the improvement in the status of women in Australian for 35 years.
The collection is used by DECS, TAFE, ACE and university staff and students, both locally and nationally, by private schools and colleges, registered training providers, researchers and community borrowers.
For the past 35 years, DECS and more recently, DFEEST, have funded this successful and invaluable organisation’s operations.
As of July 1^st 2010 DFEEST has withdrawn its funding. Unless further funding is received,

THE WSRC FACES IMMINENT CLOSURE!

How our supporters can help

Please write/email to our Premier, Minister for Education (DECS) and Minister for Further Education (DFEEST) to implore them to prevent our closure by providing the WSRC with the funding we need to stay open. These are their contact details

The Hon. Jay Weatherill, Minister for Education & Children’s Services (DECS)

31 Flinders Street, Adelaide, SA 5000

Email – decsminedcs@sa.gov.au

The Hon. Jack Snelling, Minister for Employment Training and Further Education (DFEEST)

G.P.O. Box 1838, Adelaide, SA 5001

Email – minetfe@saugov.sa.gov.au

The Hon. Mike Rann, Premier of South Australia

G.P.O. Box 2343, Adelaide, SA 5001

Email – premier@sa.gov.au

Thank you for your help.