Rosa M. Abella Collection

Elementos de identidad

Nombre y localización del repositorio

University of Miami Cuban Heritage Collection

Nivel de descripción

Colección

Título

Rosa M. Abella Collection

Fecha(s)

1968-2009 (Creación)

Extensión

3 Boxes

Nombre del productor

Abella, Rosa M.

Historia biográfica

Rosa M. Abella was an exiled Cuban librarian who worked at the University of Miami Otto G. Richter Library.

A native of Havana, Abella received her library technician degree in 1955 and a doctor of philosophy 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.

Abella was instrumental in the preservation of Cuban materials and the founding of the library's Cuban Heritage Collection.

Área de contenido y estructura

Alcance y contenido

The Rosa M. Abella Collection contains personal papers of Cuban exile and University of Miami librarian Rosa M. Abella. The collection contains materials relating to her work with the Cuban Heritage Collection, the 1996 shootdown of Brothers to the Rescue planes over international waters between the United States and Cuba, and other personal papers.

Series one consists of correspondence between Abella and various others, mostly related to her work as a University of Miami librarian. Series two contains personal papers from her library position, her work with various conferences and events, and academic papers by her and Carlos Ripoll. Series three contains news clippings and photocopies about the Brothers to the Rescue shootdown, and particularly her nephew, Armando Alejandre Jr., a pilot who was killed in the shootdown.

Sistema de arreglo

This collection is arranged into three series.

Condiciones de acceso y uso de los elementos

Condiciones de acceso

This collection is open for research.

Acceso físico

Acceso técnico

Condiciones

Requests to publish or display materials from this collection require written permission from the rights owner. Please contact chc@miami.edu for more information.

Preferred citation: Rosa M. Abella collection, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, Florida.

Idiomas del material

inglés
español

Escritura(s) de los documentos

Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras

Instrumentos de descripción

instrumento de descripción generado

chc0003.pdf

Elementos de adquisición y valoración

Historial de custodia

Origen del ingreso

Gifts of Rosa M. Abella, 2001 and 2006; additional gift of Marlene Alejandre-Triana, Ana Ciereszko and Maggie Khuly, 2014.

Valoración, selección y eliminación

A second donation in 2006 added photographs and Lyceum and Lawn Tennis clippings to the collection.

Acumulaciones

Elementos de material relacionado

Existencia y localización de originales

Existencia y localización de copias

Selected materials from this collection have been digitized.

https://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu/digital/collection/cubanphotos

Unidades de descripción relacionadas.

Photographs from this collection are housed in the photograph section of the compact files.

CHC5117 Phonograph Collection.

Descripciones relacionadas

Elemento notas

Nota general

Other Information:

Sponsor Note: Selections from this collection were digitized with a grant from the State of Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Arts Council in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.

Rights Statement: The text of this webpage is available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).

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Nota del archivista

Collection-level record added by Amanda Moreno, January 2013. Processed and updated by Fernando Espino, April 2014. Updated by Juan A. Villanueva, December 2020.