September 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. I was at the District stall for 4 hours 4-8pm at the September Night Market on Oak Bay Avenue, with June Preston for part of the time. which generated 40+ conversations and questions answered on the spot, plus 8 written enquiries. We again shared the tent with CRD staff advertising the CRD's Home Energy Navigator Program. We were lucky with the weather again, but summer was over - it was dark by the time we were taking the tents down.

The Night Markets have been a great success and we look forward to seeing you on summer evenings next year!

Enquiries: 14, of which 8 in person.

Running total for 2024: 166.

On-site volunteer hours logged: 37 (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 August: (about 5K, total 307,567 by 7 October, since 3 Mar 2022).

Archivist's work:

staffing Night Market table & responding to ensuing enquiries
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 - #55

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, 7 October 2024.

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