January-February in the Archives

January-February update from the Archivist:

Started meeting regularly with Archives Liaison Cllr Watson

Virtual class visit with the Grade Fours at GNS, for the third year :)

Met online with HF members re continuing the series of photos documenting Oak Bay properties slated for demolition or moving, parallel to the District's Building & Planning dept demolition files. Very useful meeting for working out some of the background and work flow of the project; more followup correspondence to come, working out logistics of image file storage and continuing with digital photos instead of previous print version.

Staff are now preparing for the first stage in restarting in-person Archives visits, i.e. bringing Archives volunteers back on site - we will be meeting with current volunteers for feedback and discussion next month. This means I'm working on drafts-for-feedback of a full revision of the volunteers handbook (last version 2013!) and additional policy & procedure documents, project descriptions etc .

In between those things and fielding enquiries (36 so far, in line with 2021 and 2022), I've been arranging, describing and digitizing several small previously unprocessed collections of mostly photos, and uploading draft fonds descriptions to MemoryBC.

as reported to the Heritage Foundation, 14 February 2023.

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- Post by Anna Sander, 14 February 2023.

To cite: Sander, Anna. (2023, February). 'January-February in the Archives.' [Blog post]. District of Oak Bay, Archives. Retrieved from https://connect.oakbay.ca/admin/projects/archives/news_feed/january-february-in-the-archives [date accessed].