![]() The collections of the Columbus Memorial Library contain books, periodicals, documents, archives and manuscripts, microforms, photographs, and other graphic and audiovisual materials on the Western Hemisphere. Today the Columbus Memorial Library falls under the auspices of the Secretariat for Hemispheric Affairs of the General Secretariat of the OAS and continues the mandates of the farsighted delegates to the First International Conference of American States. The Library inaugurated services in its new quarters on 15 January l988. In 1982 the Librarian recommended that the collections and staff of the CML be relocated to the Administrative Services Building. The Columbus Memorial Library prospered and grew in this location until the size of the collections far exceeded the space available for housing them in the Building. This permanent center of information was located in the Pan American Union Building, constructed through the largesse of Mr. "gratification that the project to establish a permanent center of information and of interchange of ideas among the Republics of this Continent, as well as the erection of a building suitable for the Library in memory of Columbus, has been realized. The Third International American Conference in Rio de Janeiro in 1906 expressed The formal establishment of the Library occurred on 24 January 1902, when the Second International American Conference, meeting in Mexico, named the library the "Columbus Memorial Library". That would be a monument more lasting and more noble than any in bronze or marble." a memorial Library, to which each government could send, on its own account, the most complete collection possible of historical, literary, and geographical works, laws, official reports, maps, etc., so that the results of intellectual and scientific labor in all America might be collected together under a single roof. in 1889-1890, agreed, in the words of the Delegate from Colombia, Ambassador Carlos Martinez Silva, to establish The First International Conference of American States, held in Washington, D.C. ![]() ![]() Commemorative Bookplate of the First International American Conference, 1889-1890.
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