These archives and collections are organised and described in order to make them as accessible as possible for academic research. Shelf lists or inventories are made of all the archives and collections. These can be consulted in the KDC reading room. Information on the available archives can be obtained with the aid of the on-line Rapide information system . The inventories of some archives have been published.
Every effort is made to make the archives available for research.
If the material is recent, the owners of this material can impose restrictions on its use. Archive material may be consulted only in the KDC reading room. In view of a better service to the convent archives, the KAN and the KDC are closely allied. With Archivalia , records are meant which do not make up the entire archive of this organisation or person, but only a fragment. Mostly, it concerns records received from or drawn up by persons by reason of a special activity or function.