October 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.
Enquiries: 12, of which 1 in person.
Running total for 2024: 178.
On-site volunteer hours logged: 38 (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
- transcribing oral history recordings, checking existing transcripts
Views on Flickr in October: (about 5K, total 312,683 by 15 November, since 3 Mar 2022).
Archivist's work:
- ongoing additions to Oak Bay property reference files
- WW2 online memorial project stages 1 & 2 - identifying discrepancies and errors in memorials and records, listing correct and complete names with life dates and links to online record sources re military service and memorials.
- internal and external enquiries research and responses, facilitating researcher visits, volunteer management & monthly bulletin - #56
- Post by Anna Sander, 15 November 2024.
To cite: Sander, Anna. (2024, October). 'October 2024 in the Archives.' [Blog post]. District of Oak Bay, Archives. Retrieved from https://connect.oakbay.ca/archives/news_feed/october-2024-in-the-archives [date accessed].
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