Carlos Victor Penna (Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, 1 October 1911 – Tampa, Florida, 21 February 1998) was an Argentinean library planner and organizer.
The institute was the brainchild of Ernesto G. Gietz, the library director of the School of Engineering (Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Exactas) at the time.
In addition to his duties as head of the university's central card catalogue, Penna also assumed the position of Assistant Director of the then newly created institute.
[3] 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 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.