Rosa M. Abella

Rosa Margarita Abella (13 February 1920 – 2 April 2007) was an exiled Cuban librarian who worked at the University of Miami's Otto G. Richter Library.she was the one who started the Cuban Heritage Collection in 1962

Rosa M. Abella
Born
Rosa Margarita Abella[1]

13 February 1920
Havana, Cuba
DiedApril 2, 2007(2007-04-02) (aged 87)
Miami, Florida
EducationUniversidad de La Habana
OccupationLibrarian

Biography

A native of Havana, Abella received her library technician degree in 1955, a professional publicist certificate in 1957, and a PhD in 1958. She served as the head of the circulation department for the National Library of Cuba from 1960 to 1961, at which point she left the island for Miami, Florida, as a political refugee. She worked as a librarian at Assumption Academy until she was hired as an acquisitions librarian for the Otto G. Richter Library in 1962, specializing in Spanish and Hispanic materials.[2]

Abella started the Cuban collection with a few materials in 1962 . She worked with fellow librarians like the poet Ana Rosa Núñez to build the library's Cuban and Cuban exile collections,[3] and she was instrumental in the founding of its Cuban Heritage Collection.[4]

The library also has an eponymous collection, the "Rosa M. Abella Collection, 1996-1997," which contains archival material related to the 1996 shootdown of two Brothers to the Rescue planes by a Cuban Air Force MiG-29UB. Abella coauthored a bibliography, in Spanish, about the incident.[5]

References
  1. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
  2. Estorino, María R. (2012). "Special Collections: The Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami Libraries". In John L. Ayala and Salvador Güereña (ed.). Pathways to Progress: Issues and Advances in Latino Librarianship. ABC-CLIO. p. 83. ISBN 978-1-59-158644-9.
  3. Estorino, María R. (2006). "Ana Rosa Núñez". In Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sánchez Korrol (ed.). Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. pp. 529–530. ISBN 978-0-253-11169-2. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  4. Estorino, María R. (2012). "Special Collections: The Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami Libraries". In John L. Ayala and Salvador Güereña (ed.). Pathways to Progress: Issues and Advances in Latino Librarianship. ABC-CLIO. p. 84. ISBN 978-1-59-158644-9.
  5. Abella, Rosa M.; Rovirosa, Dolores F. (1999). Febrero 24, 1996, derribo de dos avionetas: Armando Alejandre, hijo, Carlos Costa, Pablo Morales y Mario de la Peña: bibliografía. Miami: [publisher not identified]. OCLC 46457260.

Publications
  • Febrero 24, 1996, derribo de dos avionetas : Armando Alejandre, hijo, Carlos Costa, Pablo Morales y Mario de la Peña: bibliografía. Miami: [publisher not identified], 1999. OCLC 046457260
  • Publicaciones periódicas editadas en el exilio y en existencia en la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Miami. Washington, District of Columbia: Pan American Union, 1966. OCLC 182545526

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