After meeting with Denise I met Kenny, who is the library director and deals with public relations. She works to encourage her staff, and makes sure that they have enough funds. She went to Southerner Connecticut and Albertus Magnus College to get her degree in public relations. She also has a bachelors degree in history. Important things about her in her job is being a good listener, letting people to disagree with her, and recognizing people. She likes to see her staff happy and feel a satisfaction in what she does. Kenny mentioned to me that liking to work with people, listening to others, being a team player, having good communication skills including having good technical skills are important traits that one needs in her job.
Her typical day involves getting to work early, and going to meetings which could be faculty, university, or alumni affairs. Also she says that her favorite thing so far has been working on a project called MERCY which focuses on how to spend the collection budget and how people use the collection. She communicates with the users of the library by getting to know them, speaking with surgeons, and the Liaisons. She is currently working on planning a retreat for the historical library, looking at spaces in library, and is also thinking of creating a swipe system. Her proud achievements are hiring good people to work for the library, and the endowment for the historical library. Kenny has been in this career for 30 years and still loves the job, the people as well as the environment.
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