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to the Consular Section.
OFFICE HOURS
The IRC is opened to the public the following days: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 8:30am to 12:00m and 1:00 to 4:00pm.
Other days also available by appointment. |
The Information
Resource Center (IRC) of the American Embassy in San Salvador provides fast, accurate, and objective reference services on a wide range of U.S. subjects to Salvadoran government officials, journalists, non-governmental organizations, universities and businesses.
IFLA
(International Federation of Libraries
and Associations) representative
in El
Salvador offered a presentation
on recent IFLA developments in the country
and
the Central American region.
The event, organized by IRC-
El Salvador,
took place
at the Chancery Auditorium in the American
Embassy
and was
attended
by university and government librarians. 
IRC-El
Salvador joined four other posts in the region
(Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa
Rica) in
a video-conference to
analyze the current situation of public libraries
in Central America and explore the possibility
to establish regional information network. 
The
Itinerant Library "Bernardo
Melero",
a project by the U.S. Embassy and the
Salvadoran Binational Center (CCSA) to
promote American culture and reading
among young people, was inaugurated
in
Paraíso
de Osorio,
departament of La Paz, where it will
be available to students and the
general
public. 
