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Established by the First International Conference of American States on April 18, 1890, the Columbus Memorial Library's collections are consulted by readers and researchers interested in issues that concern the Americas and inter-American relations. The Library administers a program of reference services for the members of the permanent missions, General Secretariat staff and the general public. It keeps the historical files, photographs, and original documents archives of the OAS.
A committee made up of librarians and archive specialists from Harvard University, the United Nations and the United States National Archives met in Washington for one week and exchanged views with the Library's officers and staff and with other staff members of the General Secretariat. The committee presented its own evaluation of the Library's functions and its vision of what the Library's objective for the year 2010 should be. In 1995, more work will be done to plan the Library's future.
Ambassador Julio César Jaureguy, Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the OAS, sponsored a meeting of the Permanent Representatives of member States to launch a group of Friends of the Library.