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The Town Archives is the first in Spain which can be accessed on the Internet (04/11/2008)

The funds of the Municipal Archives and surfing the Net.

The website of the Virtual Library of Bibliographical Heritage (www.bvpb.mcu.es) already hosts more than 50,000 pages listed in the Archive.

Thus, the library's archive has participated with the incorporation of all funds of the sixteenth and seventeenth and part of the seventeenth century, which represent 225 works with 50,325 scanned pages.

From now on will be available on the Internet works as important as the parts of 1550 and The Chronicles of Spain in 1541 of Alfonso X, written by Francisco Cascales, Saavedra Fajardo or history of the Cross of Caravaca de Juan de Robles.

Also you can find 41 books of the eighteenth century between those who are most of the works of Cardinal Belluga.

Both the manuscripts and incunabula and old prints have been selected for characteristics such as its rarity, especially important literature, its representative or its relationship with local funds or specific historical origins.

It is also planning to contribute to Europeana http://www.europeana.eu project promoted by the European Union to create a database of bibliographic heritage of all States that make up this supranational entity and those who may join, the quality of library materials that make up the Spanish bibliographic heritage, the results of both the Virtual Library of Bibliographical Heritage of similar project like Virtual Library of Historical Newspapers http://www.prensahistorica.mcu.es.

Thus, the database will allow access Europeana Spanish bibliographic heritage through projects like this, similar to other European countries

The Virtual Library of Bibliographical Heritage is a project of the Directorate General for Books, Archives and Libraries of the Ministry of Culture and consists of digital facsimile reproductions of the collections that comprise the Spanish bibliographic heritage.

Includes collections of manuscripts and printed to be joined in the future other materials.

This digitization project Bibliographic Heritage of the City of Murcia, in addition to those already initiated in 2002 in the Digital Newspaper Library from which you have addressed the digitization of newspaper archives from the eighteenth century to 1998 and CARMESI project, initiated by the Ministry of Culture in 2005 and has been incorporated into the documentary heritage of the Municipal Archives of Murcia from the XIII to XV century and records chapter of the XVI and XVII.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia

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