Ken Haycock’s areas of special interest and accomplishments are
education for library and information studies,
organizational leadership and development, including board governance,
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 branch managers,
staff development, and the impact and effectiveness of the teacher-librarian.
He has a passion of turning research into practice and thus works
with graduate students to identify guiding principles for effective
practice based on tertiary reviews of research; recent examples include
the instructional effectiveness of the academic librarian, public
library effectiveness, the instructional effectiveness of the school
librarian, youth services in public libraries and staff development.
Dr. Haycock presents papers and leads workshops at innumerable conferences
of educators, librarians and trustees, particularly in the areas
of leadership, quality management, advocacy, organizational effectiveness,
translating research into practice and collaborative planning for
information literacy.
His teaching interests include management and leadership, orientation
and training, instructional partnerships, issues in special librarianship
and marketing.
