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Identification

Type:

Person

Preferred form:

Vázquez de Parga, Margarita (1942-2020)Other forms

Dates of existence/Biographical dates:

1942 - 2020-04-28

History:

Margarita Vázquez de Parga is a Spanish archivist. She graduated in Philosophy and Letters, History specialization, from the Complutense University of Madrid. Moreover, she was a member of the Corps of Archives, Libraries, and Museums, and worked in the Archives Section. She was also delegate of the Archives Services of the Province in Burgos and Director of the Archive of the Treasury Office in Madrid (1969-1970). Between 1971 and 1980 she coordinated the Programa Catálogo Colectivo de Publicaciones Periódicas en Bibliotecas Españolas (Collective catalogue of periodic publications program from the Spanish libraries). In 1980, she was appointed Director of the Centro de Información Documental de Archivos (CIDA) until 1986, when she became Director of the State Archives of the Ministry of Culture, as Director of the State Archives. She held this position for a decade.

Since 1997, she collaborates with Informática El Corte Inglés as a Senior Consultant in Document Management and Archives.

Other professional activities: From 1980 to 1996, she collaborated with the International Council on Archives (ICA). She was a member of the Archives Working Group in the European Union from 1992-1996 and also a member of the ERPANET Project Advisory Council of the EU. Since 2005 she has been a Member of the Superior Board of Archives of the Ministry of Culture.