This paper deals with the issues of access to the Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil´s collection, addressing their conservation policies and digital dissemination. It presents impacts that these policies impose the new realities of consultation and explores how this scenario changes the search routines, access and consultation of this collection. It perceives the use of information and communication technologies must be combined with the new reality of demand for collections. So the purpose of this article is to share knowledge about the forms of interaction of the users of the collection of the CPDOC/FGV with information resources research made available by the institution