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The Instituto Caro y Cuervo (ICC) is a Colombian centre of advanced study in Spanish and indigenous language literature, philology, and linguistics, named in honour of two leading Colombian humanists and philologists: former President Miguel Antonio Caro Tobar and Rufino José Cuervo Urisarri. It was established by Ley 5 of 1942 under the Colombian government, with its first assignment being the compilation of the Diccionario de Construcción y Régimen de la Lengua Castellana, a monumental Spanish-language dictionary. Over more than eighty years of continuous operation, the ICC has become Colombia's principal academic institution for the study and preservation of the country's linguistic and literary heritage. It is currently affiliated with the Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y los Saberes. Its campuses include Casa Cuervo Urisarri in Bogotá's historic La Candelaria neighbourhood and Hacienda Yerbabuena in Chía, Cundinamarca.
The Biblioteca Digital Palabra is the ICC's institutional digital repository, providing open online access to its extensive publication archive. The ICC's physical library, the Biblioteca Rivas Sacconi, holds an open-access reading collection, a reference room, and a hemeroteca (periodicals archive). ICC publications span linguistics, literary history, indigenous languages of Colombia, lexicography, and Colombian literary editions. The Institute also maintains the Atlas Lingüístico-Etnográfico de Colombia, a major linguistic-ethnographic survey, and publishes the Diccionario de colombianismos, a dictionary of Colombian Spanish usage. The Facultad Seminario Andrés Bello coordinates six graduate-level master's programmes.
The hemeroteca at the Biblioteca Rivas Sacconi holds Colombian periodicals of historical significance. The Institute's own publication Noticias Culturales, published continuously for decades, constitutes a valuable record of Colombian cultural journalism. The digital repository provides open access to these and other ICC serial publications, making them a resource for researchers of Latin American press history.
The Biblioteca Digital Palabra is freely accessible at bibliotecadigital.caroycuervo.gov.co. The physical library in La Candelaria is open to researchers and students. The Institute also broadcasts on its own radio studio and hosts regular academic and cultural events open to the public.