Monica Brooks

Associate Vice President for Online Learning and Dean of Libraries, Marshall University

Monica García Brooks is the associate vice president for online learning and dean of libraries at Marshall University. Active in West Virginia’s academic libraries for over 30 years, she is a past president of the WV Library Association and currently serves as MU’s representative to the WV Virtual Learning Network and WV Electronic Resources statewide library consortium. She is also proud to be a founding faculty member for the WV Remote Online Collaborative Knowledge System (WVROCKS) program providing accelerated online education opportunities for adult learners. In addition to library science curriculum development and campus copyright compliance, fun personal projects include research on her family’s circus, La Carpa Garcia, 1914-1947, and its contribution to Mexican theater in the Southwest.