Biography
Dr. Monica García Brooks is a proud alumna of West Virginia University, the University of Kentucky, and Marshall University. As the Dean of Libraries at Marshall, she has been a Pied Piper for librarianship in West Virginia’s academic library community for over 35 years. She has held leadership roles as a past president of the WV Library Association, the 2024 chair of the WVLA Intellectual Freedom Committee, and a co-facilitator of the WV Electronic Resources statewide library consortium. She also represents Marshall University in the WV Higher Education Policy Commission’s Open Education WV program—a program she has been associated with since its inception. In the online realm, Dr. Brooks is a founding faculty member of WVROCKS, an accelerated online degree completion program for West Virginia residents, where she taught for over 12 years. She is now collaborating with Marshall University faculty to establish a master’s in library science within the university’s newly founded School of Library Science scheduled to start admitting and enrolling students during fall 2025. Beyond her work in libraries, she serves as President-elect of the Huntington Rotary Club and plays in the city’s newest community band, Hoot n’ Holler. Her personal research focuses on her family’s circus, La Carpa Garcia (1914–1947), and the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair Homes of Tomorrow Exhibition.