Katy Hughes

Archivist

I first became interested in Archives when I was a history student at UVIC, using the BC Archives reference room for my own research. I started working here in 1991 as an auxiliary employee and eventually moved into a position as archivist.

I spent many years working in the reference room before switching to the acquisition of private records and the appraisal of government records. Since 2010 I have spent most of my time working on backlog processing, descriptive standards and archival systems.

Education

BA, history, University of Victoria

Areas of Interest

Archival systems including databases

Archival descriptive standards

Processing backlog government and private records in all media

Contact Katy Hughes

Email: khughes@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca

Latest Articles

Exploring through photographs….

August 1, 2014 10:43 am

In 2010 I started working on the cold storage project; identifying and describing photographic records that require frozen storage to preserve them.  This […]

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Mysteries

July 30, 2014 3:00 pm

I love mystery novels…. this site isn’t particularly fancy but it lets me search by author, character, series and other classifications such as […]

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UK Public Information films

July 30, 2014 2:57 pm

Some of my favourite online content here, especially the Charley the cat safety films from the 1970’s.  I also find the style of […]

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