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BC Archives: Change in reference room hours (forwarded from ARC AN-L)



> -----Original Message-----
> From:         Mitchell, Gary A.  MSER:EX
> Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 10:28 AM
> To:   'archives-bc@aabc.bc.ca'; 'arcan-l@majordomo.srv.ualberta.ca'
> Cc:   MSER CIPD BC Archives; Bady, Brant  MSER:EX; Glen Isaac; Glen
> McDonald; Kathryn Bridge; Mac Culham; Marland Grove; Perrin, Angela
> MSER:EX; Robert Davison; Walter Meyer zu Erpen
> Subject:      BC Archives:  Change in reference room hours
> Importance:   High
>
>
> Effective 14 August 2002, the British Columbia Archives will be moving
> Wednesdays from full service to partial service hours (i.e., the reference
> room will be opened from 0930-2100 hrs but there will be no staff provided
> services).
>
> Our new schedule will be:
>
> DAY           FULL SERVICE HOURS      PARTIAL SERVICE HOURS
> Monday        0930-1630 hrs           1630-2100 hrs
>  Tuesday      0930-1630 hrs           1630-2100 hrs
> Wednesday                                     0930- 2100 hrs
> Thursday      0930-1630 hrs           1630-2100 hrs
> Friday                0930-1630 hrs           1630-1900 hrs
> Saturday                                      1300-1700 hrs
> Sunday                CLOSED
> Statutory Holidays    CLOSED
>
> This decision was taken after a full discussion with our program heads
> about the ability to maintain the current hours with present staff
> compliment, the impact upon the health and well-being of the staff, and
> the growing awareness that we, as an archives, were not progressing on our
> information and privacy requests or fulfilling our obligation to in making
> more archival records available and publicly accessible.
> The Access Services staff members will be devoting their time on
> Wednesdays of each month to supporting our Information and Privacy section
> by reviewing currently "undetermined" archival collections (including
> finding aids, etc. ) in order to make them publicly accessible.  Please
> note that the BC Archives will keep the third Wednesday of each month
> available for staff development and training opportunities, Business
> Continuity/Disaster Recovery exercises, and public service seminars.
> I would like to extend my appreciation to all our staff members who have
> maintained a high level of client service during these  very hectic and
> chaotic six months of 2002.  Their ability to concentrate on our public
> service role is a testimony to their individual and collective
> professionalism and dedication to our society.
> If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at the numbers
> listed below.
>
> Gary A. Mitchell, CRM
> Provincial Archivist and
> Director, British Columbia Archives
> Ministry of Management Services
> Telephone:  (250) 387-2992
> Fax: (250) 387-2072
> Email:  Gary.Mitchell@gems8.gov.bc.ca
> http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca
>

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