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Curriculum Vitae

City: Vancouver, B.C., Canada

Teaching & Professional Interests

• Critical Perspectives on LIS
• Evaluation of Service
• Information Literacy and Instruction
• Information and Society / Culture
• LIS Education and Programs
• LIS Faculty
• Students
• LIS as a Profession
• Libraries and Society / Culture
• Pedagogy in LIS
• Personnel
• Philosophy
• Values
• and Ethics of LIS
• Public Libraries
• School Media Centers / Libraries
• Special and Corporate Libraries
• Strategic Planning
• Marketing
• Lobbying

Research Interests

• Information Literacy and Instruction
• LIS Education and Programs
• Personnel
• Public Libraries
• School Media Centers / Libraries
• Strategic Planning
• Marketing
• Lobbying

Dr. Ken Haycock, FCCT

Professor Emeritus

Ken Haycock is professor emeritus and former director of the School of Library and Information Science at San José State University. He has been president of several national and international professional and scholarly associations and is currently a member of the ALA Committee on Accreditation. He also holds the Follett Chair in Library and Information Science at Dominican University and is Visiting Professor at Queensland University of Technology. Dr. Haycock has received research and service awards for outstanding contributions from several associations, including the American and Canadian Library Associations and the Association for Library and Information Science Education.

Dr. Haycock has worked in most library environments, as coordinator for a major school district, CEO of a regional public library system, manager of special libraries and on the review teams for academic libraries and museums. He has also been a senior official of a $400m public organization. As a community member, Dr. Haycock has been a public library trustee, elected school board president and municipal councilor. He was previously professor and director at the University of British Columbia.

Courses Taught

• > [200] Information and Society
• > [204] Information Organizations & Management
• > [282] Seminar in Library Management
• > [282] Seminar in Library Management [Library Management]
• > [282] Seminar in Library Management [Human Resources Management]
• > [283] Marketing of Information Products & Services
• > [289] Advanced Topics in Library & Information Science (Culminating Experience)
• > [298] Special Studies [Trendspotting]

Education

• M.B.A. (Human Resources) Royal Roads University (2004)
• Ed.D. (Administration and Leadership) Brigham Young University (1991)
• A.M.L.S. (Library Science) University of Michigan (1974)
• M.Ed. (Curriculum and Education Foundations) University of Ottawa (1973)
• Dip.Ed. (Education) University of Western Ontario (1969)
• B.A. (Political Science) University of Western Ontario (1968)

Academic & Professional Experience

• Professor Emeritus, San José State University, 2010-
• Professor and Follett Chair in Library and Information Science, Dominican University, Chicago, 2010-
• Professor and Director, School of Library and Information Science, San José State University, 2005-2010
• Professor, School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of British Columbia, 1992-2005
• Director, School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of British Columbia, 1992-2002
• Director of Program Services (Director of Instruction), Vancouver (British Columbia) School Board, 1991-1992, 1985-1989
• Principal (special assignment), Waverley Elementary School, Vancouver (British Columbia) School Board, 1989-1991
• Acting Manager, Elementary/Secondary Education Vancouver (British Columbia) School Board, 1984-1985
• Coordinator of Library Services (Supervisor of Instruction/later renamed District Principal), Vancouver (British Columbia) School Board, 1976-1984
• Educational Media Consultant K-13, Wellington County (Guelph, Ontario) Board of Education, 1972-1976
• Teacher/Department Head, Colonel By Secondary School, Carleton (Ottawa, Ontario) Board of Education, 1970-1972
• Teacher/Department Head, Glebe Collegiate Institute, Ottawa (Ontario) Collegiate Institute Board, 1969-1970

Selected Publications  (last five years only)

For other publications and presentations, see Curriculum Vitae PDF above.

• Haycock, K. (2010). Predicting sustainability for programs in Library and Information Science: Factors influencing continuance and discontinuance. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science Education 51(3), 130-141.
• Haycock, K. (2010) Leadership from the middle: Building influence for change. In S. Coatney (Ed.). The many faces of school library leadership (pp. 1-12). Westport, CT: Greenwood.
• Haycock, K. (2010). Taking the lead: Leadership is about you. School Library Monthly XXVI(6), 42-44. Invited.
• Haycock, K. (2008). & Garner, C. The bunheads are dead: Discovering high tech, high touch opportunities in Library and Information Science. Career Planning and Adult Development Journal 24(2), 29-35. Invited. Reprinted: Haycock, K. (2009, Winter). American Libraries, magazine of the American Library Association, electronic supplement. Retrieved February 08, 2010 from http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/features/11092009/bunheads-are-dead
• Haycock, K. & B. Sheldon (Eds.) (2008). The portable MLIS: insights from the experts. Westport, CT: Greenwood.
• Haycock, K. (2008). Building the world's largest MLIS program (pp. 36-45). Library and Book Trade Almanac: The Bowker Annual. 53rd edition. Medford, NJ: Information Today.
• Haycock, K. (2008). & Kemp, J. Immersive Learning Environments in Parallel Universes: Learning through Second Life. School Libraries Worldwide 14(2), 89-97. Refereed.
• Haycock, K. (2008). & Irwin, E. Developing a Website director for young people: A case study using graduate students in Library and Information Science. Education Libraries 31(3), 51-60. Refereed.
• Haycock, K. (2008). The Vancouver School Board Teachers' Professional Library, 1913-1984. The Bookmark 48(11), 17-18.
• Haycock, K. (2008). School libraries in Vancouver: Factors affecting development. The Bookmark 48(11), 19-25.
• Haycock, K. (2007). Collaboration: Critical success factors for student learning. School Libraries Worldwide, 13(1), 25-35. Refereed.
• Haycock, K. (2007). Education for Library and Information Studies in Canada: A cross-cultural comparison. New Library World 108(1/2), 32-39. Refereed.
• Haycock, K. (2007). Advocacy: New rules for a new game. CALTACTICS; Newsletter of the California Association of Library Trustees and Commissioners, 3. Invited.
• Haycock, K. (2007). New and emerging information and communication technologies: Implications for teacher-librarians and school libraries. In Cyberspace, D-world and E-learning: Giving libraries and schools the cutting edge. Paper presented to the annual conference of the International Association of School Librarianship, July 16-20, 2007, Taipei, Taiwan. Co-published with the Library Association of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the National Taiwan Normal University Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. Taipei, Taiwan: International Association of School Librarianship.
• Haycock, K. (2007). The board chair. Vancouver: BC Library Trustees Association. 32 pp.
• Haycock, K. (2006). The effective board member: A handbook for public library trustees in British Columbia. Vancouver: BC Library Trustees Association. 52 pp.
• Haycock, K. (2006). Teacher-librarians affect student achievement: Is anyone listening? CCT News 48(5), Canadian College of Teachers, 4-7. Invited.
• Haycock, K. (2006). Dual use libraries: Guidelines for success. Library Trends 54(4), 488-500. Invited.
• Haycock, K. (2006). Association for Library and Information Science Education. In D. Bogart (Ed.), The Bowker annual: Library and book trade almanac (pp. 208-212). 51st edition. New York: R. R. Bowker.
• Haycock, K. (2005). From the administrator's perspective. In J. Valenza (Ed.), Super searchers go to school: Sharing online strategies with K-12 students, teachers, and librarians (pp. 161-175), edited by R. Basch. Medford, NJ: Information Today. Reprinted:Valenza, J. (2006). Library media specialists and the future: A conversation with Ken Haycock. MultiMedia & Internet@Schools, 13(1), 11-15.
• Haycock, K.(2005). Librarianship: Intersecting perspectives from the academy and from the field. In N. Horrocks (Ed.), Perspectives, insights and priorities: 17 leaders speak freely of librarianship (pp. 63-72). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. Shorter version appeared as: Haycock, K. (2005). Education for librarianship: Intersecting perspectives from the academy and from the field. Feliciter 51(1),18-22.
• Haycock, K. (2005). Systems and information literate school communities. In J. Henri and M. Asselin (Eds.), Leadership issues in the information literate school community (pp. 177-186). Libraries Unlimited. Also published by Charles Sturt University Center for Information Studies, Wagga Wagga, Australia.

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