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The Centro de Documentación e Investigación de la Cultura de Izquierdas (CeDInCI) is a nonprofit documentation centre and archive in Buenos Aires, Argentina, dedicated to the recovery, preservation, conservation, cataloguing, and dissemination of the political and cultural output of Latin American left movements and social movements from the second half of the 19th century to the present. It is widely recognized as the most important centre of its kind in Latin America.
CeDInCI was founded on April 17, 1997 by historian Horacio Tarcus and a group of researchers and activists, drawing on Tarcus's personal archive accumulated over two decades. The centre opened to the public on April 3, 1998. In 1997 it incorporated the Fondo José Paniale, a major collection of union and political press from the first half of the 20th century. In 1999 the Buenos Aires Legislature declared it a Site of Interest of the City. In 2003 it relocated to the Flores neighbourhood in premises provided by the City Government, and in April 2022 it moved to its current headquarters at Rodríguez Peña 356, CABA, in a building granted by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. In 2006 CONICET recognized it as a research site. UNESCO recognized its collection of Southern Cone labour press as Latin American cultural heritage in 2015 under its Memory of the World Programme.
As of 2019 CeDInCI held around 160,000 monographs (books, pamphlets, and theses), 10,000 periodical titles (magazines, newspapers, journals, and bulletins), and 150 personal archive collections. Holdings include anarchist, socialist, communist, Trotskyist, feminist, student, and cultural movement publications from Argentina and across Latin America, as well as personal papers of intellectuals including José Ingenieros, David Viñas, Samuel Glusberg, and Nora Cortiñas. Rare periodicals include early anarchist papers from the 1890s and continental cultural journals. In 2016 CeDInCI launched AméricaLee, an open-access digital portal for Latin American periodicals.
CeDInCI operates as a library, periodical archive (hemeroteca), and personal papers archive. Access is free for individual researchers. Collections are catalogued using open-source integrated library software. The archive at archivos.cedinci.org provides searchable online access to finding aids for personal collections. In-person consultation is available at Rodríguez Peña 356, Buenos Aires, by appointment.
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