Professionals: Ken Haycock
Dr. Ken Haycock is DIrector of The School of Library and Information
Science at San Jose State University (beginning August 2005).
Dr. Haycock completed his B.A. in Education in political science at the University of Western Ontario and a M.Ed. in curriculum and educational foundations from the University of Ottawa. He also holds a M.Ed. in curriculum and educational foundations from the University of Ottawa, an A.M.L.S. from the University of Michigan, a doctorate in educational leadership at Brigham Young University, and recently has completed an Executive M.B.A. degree.
Dr. Haycock has held positions as a history teacher, a secondary school librarian, an elementary school principal, and was coordinator of school libraries for Vancouver, British Columbia. He was also a tenured professor and director of the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia. In his career, Dr. Haycock has also served as a public library trustee, a school board chair, and union local president.
Dr. Haycock was the youngest president of both the Canadian School Library Association (CSLA) and the Canadian Library Association (CLA). He has served on the American Library Association (ALA) Executive Board and is presently a member of the ALA Council. This year, he is serving as President of the Association for Library and Information Science Educators (ALISE).
Dr. Haycock has held recent research grants for the study of the characteristics of directors of large urban public libraries, staff development, youth services in public libraries, and the effectiveness of the teacher-librarian. He is a prolific writer, editor, and publisher; a leader in education and librarianship. He is the senior partner of Ken Haycock & Associates Inc.
Faculty Webpage:
http://www.slais.ubc.ca/PEOPLE/faculty/faculty-bio/haycock-bio.htm
Personal Website http://www.kenhaycock.org/
- President of the Association of Library and Information Science Education.
- Publisher/executive editor of Teacher Librarian and its predecessor, Emergency Librarian since 1978. http://www.teacherlibrarian.com/
- What Works: Research You Can Use (Archive of monthly column in Teacher Librarian) http://www.teacherlibrarian.com/tltoolkit/works.html
- Ken Haycok & Associates http://www.kenhaycock.com/
Articles, Papers, & Documents Online:
Haycock, K. The Crisis in Canada's School Libraries:
the Case for Reform and Re-Investment. June 2003.
http://www.cla.ca/slip/final_haycock_report.pdf
"...
if Canadian politicians demand hard evidence of the utility of school
libraries and teacher-librarians, they can refer to the studies cited
in this report."
Ken Haycock. What all Librarians can Learn from
Teacher Librarians; Information Literacy a Key Connector for Libraries.
Keynote address at National Forum on Information Literacy, Australia.
http://www.infolit.org/documents/Haycockspeech.html
Book:
Haycock, Ken. Foundations for Effective School
Library Media Programs. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited,1999.
IASL Review: http://www.iasl-slo.org/review48.html