Dissemination of collections and personal archives produced by scientists exiled to Latin America: projects carried out at the National Museum of Natural Sciences Archive.

Abstract

The cataloguing and dissemination of the documentary sources of exiled scientists is of the utmost interest for the function of the Archives. The particularities of these personal archives can, with this effort, cease to represent an obstacle to their knowledge, since we must favor their accessibility to Latin American users. In the Archives of the National Museum of Natural Sciences, a project for personal archives was proposed in 2010 that will last several years. We have concluded a project that began in 1998 for the dissemination in the Archives Catalog of the CSIC Library Network of a photographic collection: (Fondo Especial. Colección Fotográfica. José Royo Gómez). In the area of personal archives, the cataloguing of the Ignacio Bolívar Fund has been completed, and its digitalization will be completed this year.