WASHINGTON — The release of more than 11,000 pages of schedules from Senator Clinton’s time in the White House offers a limited window into her day-to-day activities as first lady, showing that she met not only with world leaders but also with people who are now convicted felons who helped her raise money for her 2000 Senate run.

The long-awaited trove of documents made public by the National Archives leave many questions unanswered. More than a third of the pages, some 4,746, contain redactions, and 32 days of schedules are missing entirely. For all the meetings whose participants are identified, countless others are simply listed as “private,” with no explanation provided.

RELATED: Mrs. Clinton’s schedules as First Lady at the Web site of the William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum.

Despite the omissions, the schedules shine a light both on her substantive involvement in issues like health and child care as well as the hundreds of largely ceremonial functions she performed as wife of the president for eight years. Mrs. Clinton began holding meetings on health care within three days of President Clinton’s inauguration in 1993, and over the course of the next two years she convened scores of working groups with lawmakers, interest groups, medical associations, and other key players in her unsuccessful bid to overhaul the nation’s health care system.

The records also provide a glimpse into the at-times dizzying fund-raising schedule Mrs. Clinton kept during her run for Senate in 2000, including several private functions hosted by donors with criminal records at the time or who have since been convicted of felonies. On June 9, 2000, she attended a fund-raiser at the Spago restaurant in Beverly Hills hosted by Aaron Tonken, who was sentenced in 2004 to five years in prison for mail and wire fraud. Later that same day, the schedules show, Mrs. Clinton attended a fund-raiser at a private California residence where she was introduced by Peter Paul, a Hollywood businessman who was convicted in the 1980s of cocaine possession and of trying to extort $8.7 million from the Cuban government. The Clinton campaign returned a $2,000 check from Paul two months later after initially denying that he had contributed to her campaign.

The schedules also show two appearances Mrs. Clinton made in the fall of 2000 with Denise Rich, the ex-wife of the financier Marc Rich, who received one of President Clinton’s last-minute pardons. Marc Rich had been a fugitive in Switzerland, and Denise Rich was a major donor to the Clintons. The schedules show Mrs. Clinton held a photo-op with Mrs. Rich in October along with the former Russian president, Mikhail Gorbachev. On November 30, Mrs. Rich presented Mrs. Clinton with an “Angel of Life” award at a cancer benefit in Manhattan.

The records recount dozens of trips abroad, and in many cases they are more meticulously detailed than her schedules at the White House, with the official protocol for meeting dignitaries outlined almost to the minute. During the presidential campaign, Mrs. Clinton has cited her frequent foreign trips and meetings with world leaders as evidence of her experience and readiness to serve as commander in chief. The schedules released yesterday bolster her claims in some ways but not in others. They show that she met privately with many world leaders, such as a 30-minute meeting at the White House on May 7, 1998, with a former prime minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, who was slain last year. But on many occasions abroad, Mrs. Clinton served as little more than a companion to her husband, the records indicate; several speeches and other overseas presidential events that she attended contain a parenthetical notation at the bottom of the schedule that Mrs. Clinton “has no formal role.”

The schedules show Mrs. Clinton maintained a busy schedule during the Monica Lewinsky scandal that nearly brought down her husband’s presidency in 1998, although they provide few clues about meetings she may have had to discuss the matter.

Senator Obama’s campaign seized on a meeting Mrs. Clinton attended in 1993 on NAFTA, an agreement she has criticized during the campaign.

In a statement, a Clinton campaign spokesman, Jay Carson, said the schedules “are a guide, and of course cannot reflect all of Senator Clinton’s activities as first lady.”

The records were released following requests by reporters under the Freedom of Information Act and a lawsuit by a conservative group, Judicial Watch.

The National Archives, which oversees the documents, said archivists with the Clinton presidential library processing the records noticed that schedules for 32 days were missing. Schedules for 27 of those days have since been located and will be processed “as soon as possible,” the archives said. They did not say how the schedules went missing or which days they were for.

While the Obama campaign has criticized the Clintons for dragging their feet in processing the schedules, the Clinton campaign said an attorney for the president, Bruce Lindsey, had expressed concern that too much information had been redacted and urged more openness.

The vast majority of the redactions were of names of “third party” attendees at meetings and events who were not public figures, along with personal information such as phone numbers, addresses, and Social Security numbers of White House staff and guests. A spokeswoman for the Archives, Susan Cooper, last night confirmed that Mr. Lindsey had pushed re-open material that archivists had redacted. Most of the this material, she said, pertained to political events, including the names of fund-raisers, that were not part of Mrs. Clinton’s official role as first lady. It appears that Mr. Lindsey unblocked the publication of most fund-raisers, although the name of at least one host was left redacted.