Kris Turner

Kris Turner began working at the Law School Library in January 2012 as a Circulation Assistant and Daytime Supervisor and has since worked as the Reference and Technology Services Librarian and the Head of Reference before becoming the Associate Director of Public Services in 2018. Kris is responsible for managing the reference and access services departments and overseeing outreach, instruction, and research support that the Law Library offers to faculty, law students, and legal researchers. 

Kris also works with emerging technology, having taught numerous sessions on GenAI tools and free and low-cost resources for legal and information professionals. Kris teaches Legal Technology and Artificial Intelligence in Law Practice each fall and co-teaches Advanced Legal Research each spring. In May 2025, he was named to Library Journal's annual list of Movers and Shakers, a select group of professionals who are moving librarianship forward in innovative ways.

Kris has served as the president of the Wisconsin Library Association, the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin, and on various committees and sections of the American Association of Law Librarians. He has written many articles on topics ranging from space law to professionalism. He previously worked at Madison Public Library and at the Forest Products Laboratory Library.  Before entering librarianship, he worked in a busy bankruptcy and personal injury law firm in downtown Chicago and as a teacher in Evanston, Illinois, and Novi, Michigan.