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Photo of Esperanza Acosta Moreno |
Esperanza Acosta Moreno was born on December 23, 1932. She
graduated from Austin High School and later UTEP
with a Bachelors degree. She received her
Masters degree in Library Science from the
University of Illinois and went to work in
Youngstown, Ohio upon graduation.
After 3 years in Ohio, she moved back to El Paso,
where she worked at a library at Ft. Bliss. In
1964, she started working for the Hotel Dieu School of
Nursing, where she invented a classification system that
was adopted by the National Library of Medicine
Classification System. |
