Julio Pérez Ferrero Public Library, Public library and national monument in Cúcuta, Colombia.

The Julio Pérez Ferrero Public Library is a public library in central Cúcuta, Colombia, housed in a neoclassical stone building. The structure features tall columns, a symmetrical facade, and carefully worked decorative details that are typical of that architectural style.

The library was created by Ordenanza 45 of 14 April 1919 as the Biblioteca Puente de Boyacá and opened on 7 August 1919 in the lower floor of the Gobernación Palace. It was renamed for Julio Pérez Ferrero after his death in Pamplona on 22 April 1927, by Decreto 62 and Ley 57 of 10 November 1927. After moves during the 1930s and 1940s, it occupied a building beside Parque El Libertador from 1954 and moved to its current site on Calle 5.ª N.º 2-24 in 1987.

The library is named after Julio Pérez Ferrero, the Secretary of Public Instruction who drafted its founding regulations in 1919; it was renamed in his honour after his death in Pamplona on 22 April 1927, confirmed by Law 57 of 10 November 1927. Today it hosts the Feria del Libro de Cúcuta and runs a language school teaching English, French, Italian and German.

The library stands at Calle 5.ª N.º 2-24, facing Parque Eduardo Cote Lamus, where it moved on 23 September 1987 after 32 years in the Sociedad de Mejoras Públicas building. The building it occupies belonged to the old Hospital San Juan de Dios and is listed as a national monument. It holds several consultation rooms, internet access and a language-teaching centre for English, French, Italian and German.

Although the building is now listed as a national monument of Colombia, it began its life as a medical facility rather than a place of learning. This shift from hospital to library is one of the more unusual paths by which a public cultural building came to exist in the region.