Education
Ed.D. Specialization: Leadership in Administration. Brigham Young
University, 1991
M.B.A. Specialization: Human Resources. Royal Roads University, 2004 (in progress)
A.M.L.S. Specialization: Library Media. University of Michigan, 1974
M.Ed. Specialization: Curriculum and Foundations. University of Ottawa, 1973
Dip. Ed. Specialization: History and School Librarianship. University of Western
Ontario, 1969
B.A. Specialization: Political Science. University of Western Ontario, 1968
Certified Human Resources Professional, Human Resources Management
Association, 2003
Certified Trainer, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Association for Psychological
Type, University of Florida, 1988
British Columbia Professional Teacher’s Certificate, 1976
Ontario Permanent Elementary School Teacher’s Certificate, 1974
Ontario Specialist In School Librarianship Certificate, 1971
Ontario Permanent High School (Teacher’s) Certificate, 1969
Biography
Ken Haycock was born in 1948 and attended school in Hamilton and London
where he obtained his B.A. in political science from the University
of Western Ontario in 1968 and Dip.Ed. in 1969. He began his career
as a secondary school history teacher and teacher-librarian at Glebe
Collegiate Institute in Ottawa and was a department head and part of
the opening day staff at Colonel By Secondary School in Ottawa in 1970.
During this time he completed qualifications at the University of Toronto
to become an Ontario specialist in school librarianship and completed
his M.Ed. in curriculum and educational foundations at the University
of Ottawa. In 1972, he moved to Guelph to become educational media specialist
with the Wellington County Board of Education. From 1972 to 1976 the
Board renovated more than 30 school libraries, developed policies on
qualifications and staffing and instituted a vigorous staff training
program; he also served as a public library trustee, his local union
president, established a special library, completed his A.M.L.S. at
the University of Michigan through commuting 500 miles each week and
was elected president of the Canadian School Library Association.
In 1976 he moved to the coast to become coordinator for the Vancouver
School Board’s more than one hundred school libraries, district
resource services and special libraries; in 1984 he was named acting
manager of elementary/secondary education and in 1985 became a member
of Vancouver’s senior management team, responsible for curriculum
and program development and implementation, curriculum resources and
technologies and staff development for 7,000 employees at 115 sites.
During this time he was also principal of a large elementary school
and competed his doctorate in educational leadership at Brigham Young
University in Utah.
In 1992, he returned to librarianship as a tenured professor, and director
of the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University
of British Columbia on a five-year contract; in 1997, he accepted a
five-year reappointment. In 2002 he chose to move to full-time teaching,
research and service as a faculty member.
Ken Haycock’s areas of special interest and accomplishments are
education for library and information studies, organizational leadership
and development, implementation of change and staff development, and
teacher-librarianship. He has held research grants recently for the
study of the characteristics of directors of large urban public libraries
and of branch managers, staff development, and the effectiveness of
the teacher-librarian. Dr. Haycock presents papers and leads workshops
at innumerable conferences of educators, librarians and managers, particularly
in the areas of leadership, quality management, advocacy, organizational
effectiveness, translating research into practice and collaborative
planning for information literacy. In 2002 he was invited to give a
paper on the education of university and research librarians at the
annual conference of the International Federation of Library Associations
and Institutions in Jerusalem, where he was elected Chair of the Section
on Education and Training.
Dr. Haycock has been an active and contributing member of the library
profession since 1969. In 1974 he became the youngest-ever president
of the Canadian School Library Association and in 1977 the youngest-ever
president of the Canadian Library Association; he introduced a number
of innovations that have been institutionalized, and increased membership
in both cases. He has also served as a public library trustee in two
provinces, elected school board member (six years) and chair( three
years). Haycock is an active member of more than 30 professional associations.
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. He is a member of
more than a dozen association committees, including until recently the
American Library Association’s Council and Executive Board, the
Association of Library and Information Science Education Council of
Deans and Directors; and elected municipal councillor in West Vancouver.
Haycock is immediate past president of the American Association of School
Librarians (8,000 members) and of the Council for Canadian Learning
Resources, where he established the journal Resource•Links: Connecting
Classrooms, Libraries and Canadian Learning Resources. He is also immediate
past executive director of the International Association of School Librarianship
and edits Teacher Librarian: The Journal for School Library Professionals.
At the University of British Columbia, he chaired the Graduate Council's
New Programs and Curriculum Committee and served on committees of the
Senate, on the Faculty of Arts’ Strategic Planning Committee and
the Graduate Studies Committee on Equity in Political Science. He most
recently was appointed to the review teams for the Museum of Anthropology
and for the University Library.
Ken Haycock has received Distinguished Service Awards from the American
Association of School Librarians, the B.C. Teacher-Librarians' Association,
the Canadian Library Association and the Canadian School Library Association,
the first Grolier Award for Research and the Distinguished School Administrator
Award from the Canadian School Library Association. He was named by
Phi Delta Kappa, an international honour society, as one of the leading
young educators in North America (one of three in Canada) and received
the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal from the Governor-General
for contributions to Canadian society. He is a Fellow of the Canadian
College of Teachers (one of ten active) and an Honorary Life Member
of the Canadian Library Association. In 2001 he was awarded the Herbert
and Virginia White Award by the American Library Association for advocacy
and promotion of the profession of librarianship. The American Library
Association, British Columbia Library Association, British Columbia
Teacher-librarians’ Association, International Association of
School Librarianship and the University of British Columbia have named
awards in his honour.
Dr. Haycock enjoys research and writing—with more than 100 books,
chapters, articles and research papers. He works with graduate students
each year on research projects of mutual interest; he has six collaborative
research projects underway with students at present.
Ken Haycock is a committed and passionate advocate for public education,
libraries and librarians, and their roles in fostering community development
and informed decision-making.
