The Education USA Counseling Office of the Centro Cultural Colombo Americano Barranquilla,  is a global network of more than 450 centers in the world which are aided by the Agency for Cultural & Educational Relations of the United States Department of State.

The mission of the Education USA Centers is to promote higher  level education in the United States, by providing exact, objective and timely information about study opportunities.  In Barranquilla, we operate from our public bilingual library located in the annex across the street from the Colombo.  From this office we provide information about the United States educational system, standardized admission exams (TOEFL, SAT, GRE, GMAT), student exchange programs, graduate and undergraduate programs, intensive English courses, Amity Program (teacher exchange), financial aid and student visas.  We also provide free, periodic lectures on these subjects and for those who need more information or need help with admission forms, we offer special sessions for a very reasonable price.

The Education USA Counseling Office is equipped with informative texts and with a professional advisor trained by the United States Department of State.

Our center houses the George Washington Public Bilingual Library with a collection of approximately 6,132 books distributed equally in English and Spanish, covering Formal Sciences, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Religion, Administration, Marketing, Literature and Arts.

We also have subscriptions for 33 well known magazines such as: Architectural Digest, Art in America, National Geographic, Fortune, Time, Vogue, QG, People, Good Housekeeping, Seventeen,  Bon Appetite, Self, Psychology Today, National Geographic for Kids, Rolling Stones, Semana,  and Cambio among others.

The Library is a free service for the entire community and is located in our annex, across the Colombo: carrera 43 No.52.  Our hours are:  Monday through Friday from 8:00 A.M. until 7:30 P.M. and Saturdays from 9:00 A.M. until 12:00 N. and 1:30 to 4:00 P.M. Those interested in borrowing books, must affiliate with the Library by bringing two ID pictures, donate two books and pay a reasonable price for the membership.

New books in the English language:

American Jihad: The Terrorist Leaving Among Us by Steven Emerson,
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink,
Sarah´s Key by Tatiana Rosnay,
They Must Be Stopped: Why We must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It by Brigitte Gabriel,
The Next Hundred Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman,
The Post -American World  by Fareed Zakaria, The Help by Kathryn Stockett,
The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee,
 90 Minutes in Heaven: An Inspiring Story of Life Beyond Death by Don Piper,
Olive Kiteridge by Elizabeth Strout,
Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama, The Forgatten Garden by Kate Morton, 
An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World´s Biggest Problems by Glenn Beck,
Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifiesto by Mark R. Levin,
Still Alice by Lisa Genova,
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick.


New Books in the Spanish language:

Pasión India por Javier Moro,
Conversaciones con el Dalai Lama por Felizitas Von Schonborn,
El País de la Canela por William Ospina, 
Ángeles en mi Cabello por Lorna Byrne,
Fantasmas entre Nosotros por James Van Praagh,
El Nuevo Cuento Latinoamericano por Luis Fernando Afanador,
100 Secretos de la gente Feliz por David Niven, 
El Futuro Latino por Frank Carbajal, Breve Historia del Saber por Charles Van Doren,
Jesús de Nazaret por Joseph Ratsinger,
Osho La Semilla de la Mostaza por Agusrin Pico Estrada,
El Camino Hacia La Cultura por Cesar Vidal Manzanares,
Armagedón 2012 por Adrian Gilbert, El buda y el Amor por Lama Ole Nydahl,
Sexorcismo por Isabella Santo Domingo,
El Amanecer de un Marido por Hector Abad Faciolince,
De Gabo a Mario por Ángel Esteban Ana Gallego Cuiñas

User of the Month:

Every month the Library awards the user who borrows the most books in both English and Spanish. The user is awarded a small prize that promotes reading (book, magazine or book mark).  The July´s user of the Month was Wilfrido Solano, who is who is twenty year old student of Electronics.   
 
Activities for Children:

The George Washington Public Bilingual Library offers fun activities for children from 5-13 years old   on Saturdays from 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. at no cost.  Please call to confirm attendance.