At the same time that the new website of the General Curia of the Order was inaugurated, the General Archive also opened up a new site on the Web: www.agocd.com. There, it offers researchers essential tools to access the services of the Archive: regulations, calendar, and forms to request access to and photographic reproduction of documents.
In the section titled, “Publications,” two important sources for historical research on Carmel are already available. Both were prepared by Father Ambrose of Saint Teresa, eminent Archivist General of the Order from 1928 to 1951. They are the “MONASTICON,” a catalog of all the OCD and OCarm foundations (1950), and the “NOMENCLATOR MISSIONARIUM” (1944), a very rich source of bio-bibliographical information about the missionary Carmelites from 1582 to the 20th century. It is also possible to read and download in PDF format the “CONSPECTUS ORDINIS” of 2013 and the “ACTA ORDINIS” issue numbers published between 2012 and 2015. The plan is to digitalize the entire collection, to which other publications will be added.
A section titled, “WikiCarmel” is also under construction. It will be a database of information regarding the history of the Order.
