Title:
Edwin Castagna Collection, 1909-1983
Creator/Contributor:
Castagna, Edwin, 1909-, creator
Creator/Contributor:
Bryan, James E.
Creator/Contributor:
Carner, Charles R.
Creator/Contributor:
Clift, David H.
Creator/Contributor:
Coplan, Kate
Creator/Contributor:
Eshelman, Wm. R., 1921-
Creator/Contributor:
Foster, Emery M.
Creator/Contributor:
Gaver, Mary Virginia, 1906-1991
Creator/Contributor:
Krug, Judith F., 1940-2009
Creator/Contributor:
Maggeroli, Phyllis
Creator/Contributor:
Schick, Frank Leopold, 1918-1992
Creator/Contributor:
Stevenson, Grace T.
Creator/Contributor:
Wolff, Stewart M.
Abstract:
Clippings, notes, articles, speeches, interviews, correspondence, drafts, manuscripts, periodicals, reprints, genealogy, personal
journals, travel journals.
Date:
1909 (issued)
Subject:
Castagna, Edwin -- 1909-
Library science -- United States -- Societies, etc
Censorship
World War, 1939-1945 -- Tank warfare
Enoch Pratt Free Library.
Librarians -- United States
Note:
Not restricted. Please credit California State Library.
Born in Petaluma, California, in 1909, Edwin Castagna graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, Library School
and directed libraries in Reno, Nevada; and Ukiah, Glendale, and Long Beach in California. As director of the Enoch Pratt
Library in 1960-1977, Castagna began a Baltimore inner-city outreach program, took over the Peabody Library, and made Pratt
the state library resource center. He was known as a staunch defender of the right to read as fundamental to human liberty.
Castagna was president of the Nevada and California Library Associations. He served as president of ALA in 1964-1965 and chaired
the Committee on Legislation in 1966-1968. He died November 26, 1983, in Baltimore.
CSL Manuscript Summary Sheets
Physical Description:
40
Language:
English
Identifier:
Origin:
California
Copyright Note:
Not restricted. Please credit California State Library.