Some comments

Some comments

Hi Shyla, I really enjoyed your page - especially that you included some of the issues/ controversies surrounding the BC archives right now (also I really enjoyed looking through the BC Archives Time Machine - it's so fun!) Just a few suggestions: Do you think you could give a bit more of an idea of what the majority of their holdings are (like is it mostly government records or mostly private archives?), just to give your examples of holdings some more context? Another area that might be nice to add, if you can find some information on it, is a section on the archives' relationships with BC First Nations, in terms of any repatriation of material or collaboration.

ChristineWaltham (talk)20:08, 30 March 2015

hi Christine, I added the time machine details after Adena's comment about not getting a sense of what their holdings were like, glad you liked it! Haven't been able to find out what proportion of government to private records are there; that information doesn't seem to be anywhere. I might try and call them to find out more. As well, there's no information on repatriation anywhere. Royal BC Museum has a brief policy, but it's from 2002, before BC Archives even fell under their umbrella. This is an area I think they could focus on and improve.

Shyla (talk)18:51, 31 March 2015

Sorry for being really late to reply to you again! I see you have added some more info to the holdings sections - hopefully you didn't have to do too much more work finding more information, but now it sounds really good. One super time grammar point I happened to notice: Under you Document Disposal Act, I think if you added a "was" before "designed for a paper-based recordkeeping system" in the first sentence it would read a bit better. Other than that your whole page still looks excellent!

ChristineWaltham (talk)05:18, 9 April 2015