Head of the Access and Delivery Services Department, she was responsible for the administration of circulation, course reserves, and interlibrary loan. Before joining UNLV, Kress was the Head of the Bookstacks Department and of Binding Operations for the Regenstein Library, University of Chicago, where she was responsible for the management and maintenance of a 3.2-million-volume collection. Kress also has invaluable experience with the technology that drives the bookBot, the automated book delivery system at the new Hunt Library, having helped plan for the installation of that system at the University of Chicago, as well as managing circulation and delivery of the collection housed in the system at UNLV.
include “Lean Thinking in Libraries: A Case Study on Improving Shelving Turnaround” in Best Practices in Access Services; and “Wayfinding in the Library: Usability Testing of Physical Spaces” in Proceedings of the Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment. She is the recipient of UNLV Libraries’ Innovative Solutions Award and holds the Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art from Carnegie Mellon University and the Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois. She received training from the Lean Enterprise Institute and holds a certificate in Process Management and Improvement from the University of Chicago Graham School of General Studies.
Kress’s publications include “Horizontal Communication: Social Networking in the Middle” in Managing in the Middle: A Librarian’s Handbook. Additional works
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