Film, Video QuestionPoint: Reference in a Digital World

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Title
QuestionPoint: Reference in a Digital World
Summary
Diane Kresh discusses QuestionPoint, a collaborative initiative and online service to create a vision of what reference can be in the twenty-first century.
Event Date
August 04, 2004
Notes
-  Diane Kresh began her career at the Library of Congress as a GS-2 reading room messenger in the Main Reading Room in 1974, while still a student at Catholic University of America. She was soon promoted to a deck attendant position, later working as a library technician in the Cataloging in Publication Division and then as a shelflister in Processing Services. After completing her undergraduate degree at Catholic University, Kresh became a copyright examiner and then a reference librarian in the General Reading Rooms Division (now the Humanities and Social Sciences Division). She has had extensive management experience at the Library since becoming Head of the Collections Improvement Section of the Collections Management Division in 1984. She served as Assistant Chief and acting chief of the division from 1989 to 1992, then moved to the Preservation Directorate, where she became Preservation Resources Officer in 1993 and Director for Preservation in 1994. She also serves as Adjunct Professor at Catholic University's Graduate School of Library and Information Science, from which she received her master's degree in library science in 1980.
Running Time
7 minutes 12 seconds
Online Format
video
image

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