Rasheeda Brooks

Rasheeda Brooks serves as a key procurement professional within the Contracts Services office of the Library of Congress, where she manages the acquisition of critical information technology and media services essential to the nation’s digital stewardship mission. Her work directly supports the preservation, access, and modernization of the Library’s vast archival collections through the procurement of document preparation, digitization, and accessibility services. She oversees the full lifecycle of contract actions—from solicitation to award and administration—ensuring alignment with federal acquisition regulations and the Library’s strategic goals for equitable public access to cultural heritage materials. Brooks maintains consistent partnerships with a focused group of specialized vendors, including Clovernook Center for the Blind & Visually Impaired, Accessibility Services Inc., and Castro & Company, LLC, all of which provide expert services in accessible media production, metadata enrichment, and document conversion. Her contracting patterns reflect deep collaboration with organizations possessing subject-matter expertise in library science, assistive technologies, and archival digitization, fostering long-term, mission-aligned vendor relationships grounded in technical proficiency and compliance with accessibility standards. Notably, Brooks does not utilize socioeconomic set-asides; all acquisitions are conducted as full and open competitions. This reflects a strategic emphasis on selecting the most qualified providers based on technical capability rather than socioeconomic criteria, while still maintaining compliance with all federal procurement mandates. Her primary procurement focus is exclusively under NAICS 561410 (Document Preparation Services), encompassing high-volume scanning, optical character recognition, metadata tagging, and accessibility remediation of historical documents. Her domain expertise lies in the technical execution of large-scale digitization workflows, ensuring that born-digital and analog materials meet federal preservation standards and are fully accessible to users with disabilities.