This book is intended for readers unfamiliar with the world of the files but can find in its pages a profession. For those who intend to go into it, but do not know the details of your exercise and learning. For those who knew the archival or from exercising the profession, want to know the ups and downs, the evolution and status of training in archival, current and future trends, and want to know and consider career opportunities in today's society. Studying archival: where and why it is seen as a necessary response to the questions that surround one or other reader. First, what is the archival? Is it a discipline and to historians? When we talk of archivists and archives, we mean the same? Where does an archivist? What work develops in his job? What type of files and need professional organizations to manage their documents? Are all world archivists are common tasks to be performed and the methods of work? How professionally forms an archivist? What are the centers in Spain offer that possibility? What opportunities does the market work?