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July 2024 in the Archives

6 August 2024

photo of Anna Sander, Archivist, and June Preston, Archives Volunteer, with resources to browse at the Archives stall during the July night market on Oak Bay Avenue.

Anna Sander, Archivist, and June Preston, Archives Volunteer, at the Archives stall during the July night market on Oak Bay Avenue.

Public open hours: The Archives were open for enquiries and on-site research appointments 17.5 hours/week as usual, with drop-in hours on Tuesday mornings, plus 4 hours at the July Night Market on Oak Bay Avenue, which generated many conversations and enquiries answered on the spot, plus 21 written enquiries.

Enquiries: 34, of which 26 in person.

Running total for 2024: 140

On-site volunteer hours logged: 46 (5 volunteers)

Volunteer projects (ongoing):

  • municipal demolished-property files indexing
  • historic building permits indexing, now complete to end of 1955 - view here
  • file listing in a large collection of personal papers, preparatory to cataloguing
  • survey of cataloguing/digitization state of oral history collection, file listing preparatory to cataloguing

New articles on Connect:

Views on Flickr in July: (6.8K, total 301.7K by 6 August, since 3 Mar 2022).

Archivist's work:

  • staffing Night Market table & responding to ensuing enquiries (bulk of work in July)
  • Connect articles listed above
  • starting survey & detailed descriptions of maps, plans & drawings in the collections
  • internal and external enquiries research and responses, facilitating researcher visits, volunteer management & monthly bulletin - #53

Questions or appointment requests? Please get in touch!

Website: https://www.oakbay.ca/archives
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Email:
archives@oakbay.ca
Phone: 250-598-3290

- Post by Anna Sander, 6 August 2024.

To cite: Sander, Anna. (2024, August). 'July2024 in the Archives.' [Blog post]. District of Oak Bay, Archives. Retrieved from https://connect.oakbay.ca/archives/news_feed/july-2024-in-the-archives [date accessed].