Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
Anna Brooke was the first librarian of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, where she developed collection policies, cataloguing systems, and an exchange program between 1971 and 2016. One of her first responsibilities in the role was to help facilitate the move of the Museum's library from New York City to Washington, D.C.
Brooke earned her Bachelor of Arts and her Master of Library and Information Science degrees from the University of California. Berkeley and her Master of Arts degree from American University.
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Related Collections
Smithsonian Libraries, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Branch, Subject Files, 1971–2016, Accession 17-127, Smithsonian Institution Archives
Related Resources
- “Q&A with...HMSG Librarian Anna Brooke, Part 1,” Unbound, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
- “Q&A with...HMSG Librarian Anna Brooke, Part 2,” Unbound, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
- “Picasso’s Signature & Joe Hirshhorn’s Bow Ties: Gems in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Library” by Marisa Herandez, Unbound, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
