The recommenders of Foundational Books in Library Service included many memories of the authors. I will post about some as we prepare for the 150th anniversary of the American Library Association. Please add as you think of people in our field who made a difference to you.
Dr. Arnulfo Duenes Trejo (August 15, 1922 – July 5, 2002) was a founder of REFORMA: The National Association to Promote Library & Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking, writer, publisher and professor of Library Science at the University of Arizona.
He served in the U.S. Army during World War II with the 143 Infantry Division in the South Pacific. He was awarded the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star.
Dr. Trejo was a leader in the movement to increase library collections of Latino literature and Spanish-language materials in the United States. He was also instrumental in efforts to train more Latino and Spanish-speaking people as professional librarians.
Dr. Trejo organized the Arizona Pre-White House Conference Seminario on Library and Information Services for the Spanish in Tucson, Graduate Library Institute for Spanish-Speaking Americans. He was editor and contributor of The Chicanos: As We See Ourselves (essays by fourteen Chicano scholars), University of Arizona Press, 1979.
In 1980 Dr. Trejo cofounded Hispanic Books Distributors, a Spanish language book seller aimed at increasing the availability of Spanish-language materials to libraries in the United States.
He compiled Quien Es Quien: A Who's Who of Spanish-Speaking Librarians in the United States, 1986. Hispanic Books Distributors and Publishers.
Dr. Trejo established the Trejo Foster Foundation for Hispanic Library Education (TFF) which sponsored national institutes for library education to serve the information needs of Latinos held from 1993-2012. Mrs. Ninfa Trejo continued this work after Dr. Trejo's death in 2001.
Dr. Trejo was awarded Honorary Membership in the American Library Association in 2001.
More:
Christopher F. Grippo, and University of Arizona Graduate Library School. 1984. Festschrift in Honor of Dr. Arnulfo D. Trejo. Tucson, Ariz.: Graduate Library School, College of Education, University of Arizona.
Arnulfo Trejo - Wikipedia
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Kathleen de la Peña McCook
Distinguished University Professor
School of Information
University of South Florida
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