Kathleen McCook
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Post Toronto Public Library Workers Union (TPLWU) ratify new collective agreement. 1 week 2 days ago Post Labor Scores Long-Sought History Victory in Wisconsin Schools 2 weeks 3 days ago Post 2400 members of the Toronto Public Library Workers Union, Local 4948, (CUPE) will be in a legal strike position 4 weeks 2 days ago Post Progressive Librarians Guild opposes the actions of the Hyatt Company 5 weeks 2 days ago Post Labor Photo of the Year Finalists Include Chicago Hyatt Protest 5 weeks 5 days ago
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- * Human rights and libraries, * Unions and Librarians, * Social justice and librarianship, * Libraries building communities, * Poverty and library services, * Adult lifelong learning literacy, * Theories of reading, * Libraries as cultural heritage institutions, * Public librarianship
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Bio
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Kathleen de la Peña McCook is Distinguished University Professor at the University of South Florida where has also been director at the School of Library and Information Science. She has held administrative and faculty positions at Louisiana State University and the University of Illinois-Urbana. She holds the PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.A. degrees from Marquette University (English) and the University of Chicago (Library Science) and a B.A. in English from the University of Illinois-Chicago. She has been President of the Association for Library and Information Science Education and was the 2002 Latino Librarian of the Year (Trejo Award). She has received the Beta Phi Mu Award for distinguished service to education for librarianship; the ALA Elizabeth Futas Catalyst for Change Award; the ALA RUSA-Margaret E. Monroe Adult Services Award; the ALA Equality Award and the ALA Library Diversity Research Award.
In 2007 she received the Florida Library Association Lifetime Achievement Award.She was Scholar-in-Residence at the Chicago Public Library in 2003 and Visiting Scholar at Valdosta State University 2008.