July 2024 in the Archives

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:

Maps, plans & drawings in Oak Bay Archives (starting to catalogue)
Oak Bay Archives Banners - photo locations mapped!

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
Photo Search: https://www.oakbay.ca/archives/photographs
More photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/oakbayarchives/
Blog posts: https://connect.oakbay.ca/archives
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].