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| 1963 || || || The Brookings Institution in {{w|Washington}} holds a conference on "quantitative planning of economic policy". Speakers (which in clude Dutch and French representatives) present their models.<ref>{{cite web |title=Monographs of official statistics |url=https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/3217494/5640373/KS-CR-03-001-EN.PDF/a6c13deb-f617-45ea-82f7-2f14bd8aaa3a?version=1.0 |website=ec.europa.eu |accessdate=5 November 2019}}</ref>
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| 1963 || || || The Brookings Institution advocates a shared federal library storage facility in its report ''Federal Departmental Libraries: A Summary Report of a Survey and a Conference''. The authors suggest that such a facility could be a “cheap storage building, perhaps in a mountainside near Washington”. Major federal libraries would contribute to the management and administration on a cooperative basis, and requested materials would be delivered within a day. The imagined facility would maintain brief catalog entries that would be provided to cooperating libraries.<ref>{{cite web |title=SHARING A FEDERAL PRINT REPOSITORY: ISSUES AND OPPORTUNITIES |url=https://www.loc.gov/flicc/publications/FRD/FLICCREPORT2011.pdf |website=loc.gov |accessdate=5 November 2019}}</ref>
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| 1965 || || || "1965. Death of Mrs. Brookings, Key Supporter. Isabel Vallé January Brookings, wife of Robert S. Brookings, dies on April 7, aged 89, and leaves the Institution an $8 million bequest. She was a dedicated supporter of the Brookings Institution, having also contributed money to build Brookings’s building on Lafayette Square near the White House."<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
