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Library of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Vitacura, Italy

Library of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

The Library of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean was established in 1948 as part of the creation of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean; this coincided with the inauguration of the Economic Commission for Latin America by the United Nations, in suppo

rt of its mandate in the region. The Library has four branches: the Hernán Santa Cruz Library in Santiago, the Centro de Recursos de Información y Distribución de Documentos in Mexico City, the Raúl Prebisch Library in Brasília and the Caribbean Knowledge Management Centre in Port of Spain. These four form the ECLAC Library. The library contains 109,000 books, 1,400 scientific journals and 44,200 digital documents.

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