The Archives annual report, available at the time of writing as Document 1 at https://app05.ottawa.ca/sirepub/mtgviewer.aspx?meetid=8216&doctype=AGENDA was received by Ottawa City Council at its meeting on 26 May as part of the City Clerk’s 2020 annual report.
The 27-page report is substantive and detailed. In summary:
With 2020 being an abnormal year, Archives activity dropped in aggregate, especially relating to its corporate mandate. Yet the benchmark statistics below nevertheless also show that, over this year despite the pandemic and its effects and restrictions (including redeployed staff), the Archives did not lag very far behind overall expected results, with its community work holding steady and its public engagement through reference and outreach being significantly more than ever.
There’s a quantitative annual summary and statistics section on various aspects of the Archives activity. For instance, a four-year month-by-month bar chart showing search totals for the Ottawa Museums and Archives Collections (OMAC) online catalogue. That’s in contrast to the annual report of the Ottawa Public Library which fails to report on the operation in anything like that detail.