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SJSU, School of Library and Information Science, Appoints New Director
The School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University has appointed Dr. Ken Haycock as Director beginning in August of this year. Dr. Haycock holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Western Ontario with a diploma in education. His career began as a secondary school librarian and history teacher. He holds a M.Ed. in curriculum and educational foundations from the University of Ottawa and an A.M.L.S. at the University of Michigan. His doctorate is in educational leadership at Brigham Young University. He recently completed an Executive M.B.A. degree.
In addition to serving as a school librarian, Dr. Haycock was coordinator of school libraries for the Vancouver, British Columbia School Board, principal of an elementary school, and a tenured professor and director of the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia.
Dr. Haycock has been active in professional associations. He was the youngest president of both the Canadian School Library Association and the Canadian Library Association. He has served on the ALA Executive Board and is presently a member of the ALA Council. He is serving this year a term as President of the Association for Library and Information Science Educators.
In his career he has served as a public library trustee, school board chair, and union local president. He has served on more than two dozen government and community boards as diverse as federal publishing juries, community information, elimination of Sexism, race relations, and community services.
Dr. Haycock has held research grants recently 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. This past year, he delivered papers in four countries on staff development practices in large public libraries, censorship of the Internet, graduate education, and public library branch managers. Dr. Haycock will be arriving on campus on August 1 to launch the new Executive MLIS program.
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