Catherine "Kitty" Scott (1927 - May 17, 2010) was the chief librarian and director for the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

Scott attended St. Cecilia's Academy on the Hill in Washington, D.C.[1] Her first part-time job was with the Library of Congress, where she worked as a high school student during World War II.

[1] Scott helped to plan and maintain an official library, for which she received the Superior Service Award from the Secretary of the Smithsonian.

[4] Scott was appointed by President Nixon to serve on the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) in July 1971.

[1] In 1985, Scott published Aeronautics and Space Flight Collections, which is considered the second major bibliographical work on aerospace archives.