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Kathleen de la Peña McCook
Distinguished University Professor
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BIO
Kathleen de la Peña McCook, KN4IJM, holds the MA from the University of Chicago, Graduate Library School and PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has an M.A. in English Literature
from Marquette University and B.A.in English Literature from the University of Illinois Chicago. She is author of Introduction to Public Librarianship (ALA Editions). She has been honored with the Lippincott Award from the American Library Association, REFORMA Lifetime Achievement Award, Dr. Jean E. Coleman Library Outreach Lecture, Beta Phi Mu Award, Florida Library Association Lifetime Achievement Award, Brubaker Award for literary merit by the Catholic Library World and as Chicago Public Library, Scholar in Residence. She currently writes "The Preservation and Annihilation of Memory."
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison
- M.L.S., University of Chicago
- M.A., Marquette University
- B.A., University of Illinois-Chicago
Recent Publications & Research
- "There is Power in a Union: 2021-Labor Day, 2023" (with Elaine Harger):Social Responsibilities Newsletter. 223. American Library Association. (October, 2023): 1-93. ULW SRRT newsletter.pdf (ala.org)
- “Diversity of LIS School Students: Trends Over the Past 30 Years” (with JungWon Yoon). Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. (2021).
- Introduction to Public Librarianship. 3rd Ed. Chicago: ALA Editions, 2018.
- “From the One Mule Tenant Farmer to the Hillbilly Highway: How Librarians can Support the White Working Class.” The Library Quarterly 87 (July 2017).