August 2024 in the Archives

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, except for one week while I took some annual leave. June Preston and I were at the District stall for 4 hours 4-8pm at the August Night Market on Oak Bay Avenue, which generated 40+ conversations and enquiries answered on the spot, plus 6 written enquiries. This time we shared the tent with CRD staff advertising the CRD's Home Energy Navigator Program. Looking forward to the last of the season on 11 September.

Enquiries: 9, of which 8 in person.

Running total for 2024: 149 - thanks to a big boost through engagement at the Night Markets, by the end of August we exceeded the yearly enquiry totals for 2020-2023.

On-site volunteer hours logged: 36 (5 volunteers)

Volunteer projects (ongoing):

municipal demolished-property files indexing
historic building permits indexing
assisting with enquiries research
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

Views on Flickr in August: (1.2K, total 302.9K by 30 August, since 3 Mar 2022).

Archivist's work (3 weeks):

staffing Night Market table & responding to ensuing enquiries (bulk of work in August as well, catching up)
continuing survey & detailed descriptions of maps, plans & drawings in the collections
internal and external enquiries research and responses, facilitating researcher visits, volunteer management & monthly bulletin - #54

Questions or appointment requests? Please get in touch!

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Phone: 250-598-3290

- Post by Anna Sander, 6 September 2024.

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