The World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) has it's roots in CUNA International. CUNA is the national peak body for credit unions in the USA, the largest credit union movement in the world. CUNA established in 1954 a World Extension Division to assist emerging national movements and became CUNA International in 1964. Ken Miller, an Australian delegate to CUNA International, thought that "there should be a separate organisation which would be worldwide and which would not be totally dominated by the US. It should be worldwide in its own right. We’d talk about this and we’d find that there were many people who were responsive to it and agreed with us".

Evidentially, many CUNA International delegates agreed with Miller as the World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) began on January 1, 1971 in the place of CUNA International. Today WOCCU aims to "promote more equitable and resilient communities through financial inclusion powered by credit unions and financial cooperatives" and to "expand financial inclusion worldwide through a vibrant and growing global credit union movement".

Our WOCCU collection includes yearbooks, reports, newsletters and journals, photographs, videos and an extensive array of records arising from the WOCCU forums held in Sydney in 1979 and Melbourne in 1988.