Janet Parks was curator of Drawings and Archives at the Avery Library from 1978 until retiring in June 2017. Under her curatorial direction the department made more than 650 acquisitions, including the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archive (co-owned with MoMA), increasing the archive’s holdings by 95% and bringing the current collection to more than 2,000,000 items. She has curated exhibitions on Max Abramovitz, Ely Jacques Kahn, the Woodlawn Cemetery, and the Guastavino Fireproof Construction Company. She has lectured and published about architectural drawings in the Avery collections, most recently an essay on Frank Lloyd Wright drawings for 2017 exhibition catalog, Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive, at the Museum of Modern Art.