Carlos Victor Penna

Carlos Victor Penna (Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, 1 October 1911 – Tampa, Florida, 21 February 1998) was an Argentinean library planner and organizer.

Carlos Victor Penna
Director of the Regional Office for the Western Hemisphere, UNESCO
In office
1962–1970
Personal details
Born
Carlos Victor Penna

(1911-10-01)1 October 1911
Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died21 February 1998(1998-02-21) (aged 86)[1]
Tampa, Florida
NationalityArgentinian
Spouse(s)Rita Maria Valdes
ChildrenLuis Carlos Penna, Victor Oscar Penna.
Occupationlibrary planner and organizer


UNESCO career

In 1951, Penna received an offer to join UNESCO as a specialist in its Regional Office for the Western Hemisphere, of which he became director in 1962. In Carlos Victor Penna's words,

"Scholarship and culture represent a precious source of national wealth. This is why, in every development plan as well as all educational planning, keeping an individual well-informed is an important means of encouraging economic and social development. In order to be educated and cultured, one needs an efficient system of education, which is hardly conceived without a cultivated and systematic habit of reading. Reading presupposes the availability of books and consequently a library is needed. Without libraries, there can be no good primary schools, no efficient secondary schools and no productive universities. In the absence of libraries, it is neither possible to encourage nor to maintain a permanent education for adults…."[3]

Penna retired from UNESCO in 1971.[1]

Personal life

In 1954, Carlos Victor Penna married Rita Maria Valdes in Havana, Cuba. They had two children, Luis Carlos and Victor Oscar. In 1964, Penna moved to Paris with his family. After retiring in 1971 from UNESCO, he moved to Palma de Mallorca, Spain. In 1974, he relocated to Yonkers, NY. In 1981, he moved to his final home in Tampa, Florida, where he lived with his wife and three children for the remainder of his life, until his death on 21 February 1998.[1]


Bibliography
  • 1945. Catalogacion y Classificacion de Libros, acme agency; Buenos Aires
  • 1967. Planning Library Services
  • 1970. The Planning of Library and Documentation Services 2nd ed
  • 1971. La planificacion des services de bibliothèque et documentatation
  • 1976. Thirty Years of Action by UNESCO for the Development of Documentation, Library and Archive Services in its Member States, UNESCO Volume 30 No. 6
  • 1979. Planning of Library and Documentation Services
  • 1994. Modernizacion de la Biblioteca Nacional

References
  1. Josefa E. Sabor (1999). "World Libraries: The Pioneers: Carlos Victor Penna". Translated by Jane Carpenter. Worlib.org. Archived from the original on 6 January 2010.
  2. World Libraries, Dominican University, School of Library and Information Sciences"
  3. Extracted from one of C.V. Penna's manuscripts

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