May 13, 1998
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Kresh Named Director for Public Service Collections
Associate Librarian for Library Services Winston Tabb
has announced the appointment of Diane Kresh as Director of
Public Service Collections. Ms Kresh has served as acting
director since August 1996.
"Diane Kresh is well known to Library of Congress staff
through her exceptional service as acting director for the
past one and a half years and also through her service in
many parts of the Library since she joined the staff in
1974," said Mr. Tabb. "As Director for Public Service
Collections, she will be responsible for one of the
Library's largest organizational entities, including more
than 700 staff who provide service in 15 of the Library's
reading rooms, provide custody and security for the
Library's 113 million-plus general and special collections,
and process and catalog most special-format materials."
Ms. Kresh has had an unusually varied and diverse
career at the Library that uniquely qualifies her for this
position. She 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, Ms. Kresh became a copyright
examiner and then a reference librarian in the General
Reading Rooms Division (now the Humanities and Social
Sciences Division). She was a member of the Library's
1981-82 Intern Class.
Ms. Kresh has had extensive management experience at
the Library, moving successfully through a series of
progressively responsible positions 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.
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PR 98-076
5/13/98
ISSN 0731-3527