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Curriculum Vitae

San Jose
Telephone:
  1-510-577-3954

Teaching & Professional Interests

• Children's / YA Literatures
• Children's Services
• Libraries and Society / Culture
• Reading and Literacy
• School Media Centers / Libraries
• Serving Multicultural Populations
• Storytelling
• Young Adult Services
• Media in Public Library Collections

Research Interests

• Children's / YA Literatures
• Children's Services
• Libraries and Society / Culture
• Reading and Literacy
• School Media Centers / Libraries
• Serving Multicultural Populations
• Storytelling
• Young Adult Services
• Media in Public Library Collections

Penny Peck

Lecturer

Penny Peck has been a children's librarian for 25 years; before that, she was Snow White and Mother Goose at Children's Fairyland in Oakland, ran a nightclub, worked as the wardrobe mistress for the Berkeley Ballet, and was an agent for a standup comedian. Her experience includes performing thousands of storytimes, leading hundreds of book club discussions for students in grades 4-12, conducting hundreds of school tours and assemblies, reviewing children's books and media, and conducting the Performers' Showcase for auditioning library entertainment. She is editor of BayNews, the newsletter for the Association of Children's Librarians of Northern California. Her goal is to create libraries as place, where the community meets for educational and cultural programming, as well as facilitating the love of literature in youth so they will be life-long readers.

Courses Taught

• > [260] Resources for Children, Ages 0-6
• > [262A] Materials for Children Ages 0-4
• > [263] Materials for Children Ages 5-8
• > [264] Material for Tweens
• > [265] Materials for Young Adults

Education

• M.L.S. San José State University (1977)
• B.A. (History) California State University, Hayward (1976)

Academic & Professional Experience

• Senior Librarian, Youth Services, San Leandro Public Library, San Leandro, CA (1986-2010)
• Lecturer, San José State University, (1994-)
• Instructor, Infopeople, California State Library project, (2004-)
• Workshop Instructor: Children's Services Fundamentals

Selected Publications  (last five years only)

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

• Peck, P. (2010). Readers' Advisory for Children and Tweens. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.
• Peck, P. (2008). Crash Course in Storytime Fundamentals. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.
• Peck, P. (2006). Crash Course in Children's Services. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.
• Peck, P., Editor. (1992-Present). BayNews. www.bayviews.org.
• Peck, P. (2003, March). The Big Event. School Library Journal, 45.

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