"Rafaela Castro was born in Bakersfield, California, but had lived most of her life in the San Francisco Bay Area. She spent two years in Brazil with the Peace Corps before receiving degrees in English Literature, Library Science, and Folklore from the University of California, Berkeley. She lectured in Ethnic Bibliography and Chicano Studies at UC Berkeley, worked at the University of Oregon, Contra Costa College, and recently retired from the Humanities/Social Sciences department of Shields Library at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Dictionary of Chicano Folklore; and Provocaciones, Letters from the Prettiest Girl in Arvin.
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Chicano-Folklore-Folktales-Traditions-Religious/dp/0195146395
Author: http://rafaelacastro.vpweb.com/?prefix=www
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/542483.Rafaela_G_Castro
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/rafaela-castro/8/99/8a2
Directory of Writers & Poets: http://www.pw.org/content/rafaela_castro"
Submitted by Miguel Juárez
March 05, 2015, M. Juárez, “Rafaela Castro, Bibliotecaria, Folklorista, Autora, Retired Librarian from UC Davis-Rest in Peace.” in Newsies.us, a blog for all of us.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150309034728/http://newsies.us/2015/03/rafaela-castro-bibliotecaria-folklorista-autora-retired-librarian-from-uc-davis-rest-in-peace/
Rafaela Castro
https://web.archive.org/web/20150309034728/http://newsies.us/2015/03/rafaela-castro-bibliotecaria-folklorista-autora-retired-librarian-from-uc-davis-rest-in-peace/
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In honor of the Sesquicentennial (150th Anniversary of ALA) in 2026, the Library History Round Table is hosting Librarians We Have Lost, Sesquicentennial Memories -1976-2026. This collage of tributes seeks to honor librarians who died between 1976-2026. The tributes are published to ALA Connect, a digital memorial on LHRT News & Notes, and ALA's official repository (ALAIR).
We invite tributes from anyone about any library worker who passed away between 1976-2026. To submit a tribute, please use the form at https://lhrt.news/librarians-we-have-lost-sesquicentennial-memories-1976-2026-2/ Please consider including photos with permissions if possible.
For questions or comments, please reach out to Dr. Kathleen McCook (kmccook@usf.edu) or Brett Spencer (dbs21@psu.edu).
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Brett Spencer
Reference Librarian
Thun Library, Penn State Berks
He/Him/His
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