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The OAS General Assembly meets in a Special Session to approve the Program-Budget. Find these documents from 1998-2013 here.</div> <div id="loadme2" style="display:none;">Each year in April, the OAS Board of External Auditors publishes a report covering the previous calendar year’s financial results. Reports covering 1996-2013 may be found here.</div> <div id="loadme3" style="display:none;">Approximately six weeks after the end of each semester, the OAS publishes a Semiannual Management and Performance Report, which since 2013 includes reporting on programmatic results. The full texts may be found here.</div> <div id="loadme4" style="display:none;">Here you will find data on the Human Resources of the OAS, including its organizational structure, each organizational unit’s staffing, vacant posts, and performance contracts.</div> <div id="loadme5" style="display:none;">The OAS executes a variety of projects funded by donors. Evaluation reports are commissioned by donors. 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Here you will find the latest general purpose financial reports for the main OAS funds, as well as OAS Quarterly Financial Reports (QFRs).</div> <div id="loadme10" style="display:none;">Every year the GS/OAS publishes the annual operating plans for all areas of the Organization, used to aid in the formulation of the annual budget and as a way to provide follow-up on institutional mandates.</div>  <div id="maincontent">  <br> <br> <br> <div id="banner" class="cml__banner" style="height: 400px; clear: both"> <br> <noscript><div class="noscript-message noindex"><p>It looks like JavaScript is either disabled or turned off. Please enable JavaScript to correctly view this web site.</p> <p>Parece que JavaScript está desactivado o apagado. Por favor, activar JavaScript para ver este sitio de web.</p> <p>Afigura-se o JavaScript está desativado ou desligado. Por favor ative o JavaScript para visualizar este site.</p> <p>Il semble que JavaScript est dásactivé. S'il vous plaît, activer JavaScript pour visualiser ce site.</p> </div></noscript> <div class="fill jumbotron cml__banner__img" title="Columbus Memorial Library, Reading Room, 1911" style="background-image:url('http://www.oas.org/es/columbus/imgs/CML-Reading-Room-1911.jpg');"> <div class="container"> <h1>  Columbus Memorial Library </h1> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row rowMargin" style="margin-top: 15px"> <div class="col-lg-12"> <ul class="nav nav-tabs nav-justified cml__tabs"> <li class="cml__tab active"> <a href="#">About CML</a> </li> <li class="cml__tab"> <a href="collections.asp">Collections and Archives</a> </li> <li class="cml__tab"> <a href="services.asp">Using the library</a> </li> <li class="cml__tab"> <a href="research.asp">Research and Key Documents</a> </li> </ul> <div id="myTabContent" class="tab-content"> <div class="cml__tab-pane tab-pane fade active in" id="service-one"> <div class="row"> <p> The Columbus Memorial Library (CML) is the institutional memory of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Inter-American System. Its holdings include the official documentation of Specialized Conferences and Meetings, as well as the publications of the Specialized Organs of the OAS. The Library was created in 1890 with contributions from the hemisphere's governments including <i>鈥渉istorical, geographical, and literary works, maps, manuscripts, and official documents relating to the history and civilization of America."</i></p> </div> <div class="row"> <h3 id="facts" class="first"><a class="cml__anchor">Facts</a></h3> <div class="col-sm-4 text-center"> <div class="cml__facts"> <div class="cml__facts-number odometer odometer-years">0</div> <h4 class="cml__facts-title">Years serving OAS</h4> </div> </div> <div class="col-sm-4 text-center"> <div class="cml__facts"> <div class="cml__facts-number cml__facts-number--plus odometer odometer-books">0</div> <h4 class="cml__facts-title">Volumes</h4> </div> </div> <div class="col-sm-4 text-center"> <div class="cml__facts"> <div class="cml__facts-number cml__facts-number--plus odometer odometer-requests">0</div> <h4 class="cml__facts-title">Requests processed per year</h4> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <h3 id="history"><a class="cml__anchor">History</a></h3> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="cml-image__wrapper cml-image__wrapper--left cml-image__wrapper--small"> <img src="imgs/cml_pin.jpg" class="cml__image" title="Commemorative Bookplate of the First International American Conference, 1889-1890." alt="Commemorative Bookplate of the First International American Conference, 1889-1890."/> <span class="cml__image-desc">Commemorative Bookplate of the First International American Conference, <br/> 1889-1890.</span> </div> <p>The First International Conference of American States, held in Washington, D.C. in 1889-1890, agreed, in the words of the Delegate from Colombia, Ambassador Carlos Martinez Silva, to establish <i>"... 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... That would be a monument more lasting and more noble than any in bronze or marble..."</i> </p> <p>The formal establishment of the Library occurred on 24 January 1902, when the Second International American Conference, meeting in Mexico, named the library the <i>"Columbus Memorial Library"</i>.</p> <p>The Third International American Conference in Rio de Janeiro in 1906 expressed <i>"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... "</i> </p> <p>This permanent center of information was located in the Pan American Union Building, constructed through the largesse of Mr. Andrew Carnegie. 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. In 1982 the Librarian recommended that the collections and staff of the CML be relocated to the Administrative Services Building. The Library inaugurated services in its new quarters on 15 January l988.</p> <p>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.</p> <p> 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. Many of these materials are rare and unique.</p> <p>Research services are provided to the Permanent Missions to the OAS, officials of the OAS, the General Secretariat and to the public.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <h3 id="staff"><a class="cml__anchor">Columbus Memorial Library Staff</a></h3> <p> <div class="col-sm-6 col-md-6 text-center" style="left: 11px; top: 3px"> <div class="thumbnail cml__thumbnail"> <div class="caption"> <h3 class="auto-style2">Giovanni Facchin <br/> <span class="style1">Chief Librarian</span><br/> </h3> <ul class="list-inline"> <li><a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#065455736774637c4669677528697461"><i class="fa fa-envelope"></i>  <span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="6f28290e0c0c0706012f000e1c41001d08">[email protected]</span></a> </li> <li><a href="tel:202-370-0628"><i class="fa fa-phone"></i>  202-370-9736</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </p> <div class="col-sm-6 col-md-6 text-center" style="left: 11px; top: 3px"> <div class="thumbnail cml__thumbnail"> <div class="caption"> <h3>Rocio Suarez <br/> <span class="style1">Library and Archives Specialist</span><br/> </h3> <ul class="list-inline"> <li><a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#356766405447504f755a54461b5a4752"><i class="fa fa-envelope"></i>  <span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a3f1f0d6c2d1c6d9e3ccc2d08dccd1c4">[email protected]</span></a> </li> <li><a href="tel:202-370-0628"><i class="fa fa-phone"></i>  202-370-0628</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-sm-6 col-md-6 text-center" style="left: 288px; top: -4px"> <div class="thumbnail cml__thumbnail"> <div class="caption"> <h3>Records Center <br/> <small>Technician</small> <br/> </h3> <ul class="list-inline"> <li><a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#7f3c3233161d0d1e0d063f101e0c51100d18"><i class="fa fa-envelope"></i>  <span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e7a4aaab8e859586959ea7888694c9889580">[email protected]</span></a> </li> <li><a href="tel:202-370-0723"><i class="fa fa-phone"></i>  202-370-0723</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <h3 id="depository"><a class="cml__anchor">Depository Libraries</a></h3> <p>The Organization of American States distributes each year free of charge informational and technical publications of the General Secretariat and the Official Records of the OAS to selected institutions. To ensure their availability the Library maintains a network of depository libraries throughout the Americas and Europe. Designation as a depository library necessitates a formal agreement with the Columbus Memorial Library.</p> </div> <div class="row"> <h3 id="exhibitions"><a class="cml__anchor">Exhibitions & Events</a></h3> <p>The Columbus Memorial Library periodically mounts exhibits highlighting the history of the OAS and its predecessors, the OAS buildings, or the life and culture of the member state countries. Usually the exhibits are mounted in display cases outside the Simon Bolivar Room, on the Marcus Garvey Hall of Culture (behind the Patio in the Main Building), in the Library, and in the corridor outside the Columbus Memorial Library (ADM).</p> <a href="exhibitions_events.asp" class="cml__link">Visit Exhibitions & Events Gallery Page  <i class="fa fa-external-link"></i></a> </div> <div class="row"> <h3 id="friends"><a class="cml__anchor">Friends of the Library</a></h3> <p>In 1994, under the leadership of the then Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the OAS, Ambassador Dr. Julio C茅sar Jaureguy, the Group of Friends of the Library was formally established. The role of the Group is to assist the Columbus Memorial Library in realizing some of the planned activities and in generating renewed enthusiasm for its programs and activities.</p><br></br> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-6"> <div class="row text-center"> <h3 id="location"><a class="cml__anchor">Location</a></h3><small><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/5uzJXdY2Pg875iMV8" target="_blank" style="color:gray">19th Street & Constitution Ave.<br/>NW, Washington D.C</a></small><br/> <p>The Columbus Memorial Library is located at Constitution Ave. NW, between 18th & 19th Streets. There are two building entrances: one on 18th street, and one on 19th street. (The entrance on Constitution Ave. is closed).<br/> You have to show a valid ID to receive your pass and proceed to the Library located on the ground floor. The Library is closest to the Foggy Bottom/GWU and Farragut West Metro stops.</p> <h3 id="directions"><a class="cml__anchor">Hours of Operations:</a></h3> <span class="auto-style1"><em>Visits by appointment only, please email us at </em> <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#482b2524212a3a293a310827293b66273a2f"> <strong><em><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c2a1afaeaba0b0a3b0bb82ada3b1ecadb0a5">[email protected]</span></em></strong></a><em> to request an appointment.</em></span></div> </div> <div class="col-xs-6"> <div class="cml-image__wrapper--big"> <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/5uzJXdY2Pg875iMV8" target="_blank"><img src="imgs/cml-map.jpg" class="cml__image" alt="Map with CML Location" title="CML Map"></img></a><br></br> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <h3 id="contact"><a class="cml__anchor">Contact</a></h3> <div class="col-xs-6 col-xs-push-3 text-center"> <a class="cml__link" href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#aae9e7e6c3c8d8cbd8d3eac5cbd984c5d8cd"><i class="fa fa-envelope"></i>  <span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="054648496c677764777c456a64762b6a7762">[email protected]</span></a>     <a class="cml__link" href="tel:202-370-0628"><i class="fa fa-phone"></i>  202-370-0628</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   <div id="footer"> <ul><li>© Copyright <script data-cfasync="false" src="/cdn-cgi/scripts/5c5dd728/cloudflare-static/email-decode.min.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"></script> OAS</li><li><a href="http://www.oas.org/dhrs/dhr/employment_opportunities.asp">Employment and Internships</a></li><li><a href="http://www.oas.org/en/scholarships/default.asp" rel="external">Scholarships</a></li><li><a href="http://www.oas.org/OASpage/bid/default.asp" rel="external">Procurement</a></li><li class="last"><a href="http://www.oas.org/en/protocol.asp">Protocol</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="http://www.oas.org/en/terms_conditions.asp">Terms & Conditions</a></li><li><a href="http://www.oas.org/en/contactus.asp">Contact Us</a></li><li><a href="http://www.oas.org/airf/Default.aspx?Lang=En">Access to Information</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.oas.org/teldir/">Staff Directory</a></li>  <li class="rss"><a href="http://www.oas.org/en/rss.asp" title="RSS">RSS</a></li>  </ul>    </div>  <script type="text/javascript"> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-961699-1', 'oas.org'); ga('require', 'linkid', 'linkid.js'); ga('send', 'pageview'); </script>  <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-S2R9FCBW04"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-S2R9FCBW04'); </script>  <script type="text/javascript" src="js/bootstrap.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="lib/odometer/odometer.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="lib/waypoints/jquery.waypoints.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function () { var odometerYearsEl = $('.odometer-years')[0]; odometerYears = new Odometer({ el: odometerYearsEl, }); var odometerBooksEl = $('.odometer-books')[0]; odometerYears = new Odometer({ el: odometerBooksEl, }); var odometerCollectionsEl = $('.odometer-requests')[0]; odometerYears = new Odometer({ el: odometerCollectionsEl, }); var waypoint = new Waypoint({ element: document.getElementById('facts'), handler: function (direction) { var years = moment().diff('1890-05-30', 'years'); odometerYearsEl.innerHTML = years; odometerCollectionsEl.innerHTML = 3800; odometerBooksEl.innerHTML = 500000; }, offset: '90%' }); }); </script> </body> </html>

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