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INTRODUCTION
Archives consists of a select list of library and archival holdings in Spain and a description of their contents. The aim of Archives is to familiarize scholars, particularly graduate students embarking on research abroad, with the organizational principles of various archives and to offer updates, whenever possible, on published catalogs, CD ROMs, digitalized media projects as well as useful links to websites. Over the past ten years, some Spanish archives have launched long-term initiatives that aim to provide the investigator with on-line or microfilmed inventories, digitalized documents, and sophisticated search mechanisms. Some Spanish archives continue to operate on the card-catalogue system. Others, especially small private libraries, offer hand-written lists of their holdings. Archives serves as a basic orientation, with useful tips, on availability and access to these respective cataloging systems. The Medieval Spains list is by no means comprehensive given the number of Spanish archives, the largess of pre-modern sources which survive, and the fact that new discoveries of hidden or misplaced caches of documents continue to be made by scholars today. Rather, Archives is intended to broadly map such discoveries as well as provide, and exchange, experience-based insight and research guidance.
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