On behalf of the City of Edmonton Archives, thank you to everyone who participated in #AskArchivists Day on June 9th!
Globally there were 7,476 tweets and 1,698 twitterers for #AskArchivists Day, full details can be found here.
We were pretty busy and the event ended up stretching over a couple of days for us as we found more questions to answer. There were 3 questions asked on the City of Edmonton Facebook page, 15 on our blog posts and 19 through twitter. Of the twitter questions, we answered 9 directly on twitter and 10 on our blog post of the day. Questions ranged from requests for advice on how to find information and about what types of research is done at the Archives, to research questions about buildings, genealogy and communities.
There was also a lot of other activity on twitter. We were posting tweets about the event both leading up to and throughout the day, most of which were retweeted. My favorite exchange was a retweet of one of our posts (City archivists will be standing by on AskArchivists Day – June 9th) that someone sent to a friend, who replied “what the heck is AskArchivists Day? Sounds rad!” While this didn’t generate a question as far as I can tell, we got them talking, which was one of the goals of the day.
#AskArchivists Day was a lot of fun for all of us here at the City of Edmonton Archives and we had to sit down to recover our breath at the end of the day, even the bunnies…
Stay tuned for the next #AskArchivists Day but you don’t have to save your questions until then. We answer questions all the time!
You can ask us at cms.archives@edmonton.ca or at 780-496-8711