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November in the Archives

3 November 2023

June sorts newspaper cuttings for the local history reference files

Open hours: The Archives were open to the public for enquiries, and in person by appointment, 9.30-4 Tuesdays and Fridays, with Tuesdays 10-1 as drop-in hours.

Enquiries: 17, of which 5 in person. Running total for 2023: 149.We've now passed the yearly totals for 2020, 2021 and 2022.

On-site volunteer hours logged: 22

Volunteer projects:

  • municipal demolished-property files indexing
  • reference files overhaul & adding 2 recent large accessions of news cuttings on Oak Bay topics
  • physical numbering of items in a new large accession of personal papers
  • maps survey: listing and photographing rolled oversize maps/plans/drawings, hitherto undescribed
  • tagging (subject indexing) Taylor family photos online - remote project
  • oral history transcripts - checking/revising

Views on Flickr in November: 8000 (total 233K)

Archivist's work:

  • index of local history reference files, new online here
  • completed AABC CPD course on managing oral history programs and collections
  • restarted monthly volunteers' bulletins
  • file list of Logan Mayhew House plans etc new online here
  • file list of PR 231 Dr Larry McCann's research papers about John Olmsted's design of the Uplands and many other planned suburbs, new online here
  • live and updatable list of community records in OB Archives, now on Connect here
  • volunteer management

Questions or appointment requests? Please get in touch!

Website: https://www.oakbay.ca/archives
Photo Search: https://www.oakbay.ca/archives/photographs
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Blog posts: https://connect.oakbay.ca/archives
Email:
archives@oakbay.ca
Phone: 250-598-3290

- Post by Anna Sander, 1 December 2023.

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