Kathleen de la Peña McCook

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Kathleen de la Peña McCook is Distinguished University Professor at the University of South Florida. She has also been on the faculties of the School of Library and Information Science at Louisiana State University and of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She earned her MA at the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago, her MA in English at Marquette University and her PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her academic specializations include human rights; social justice and librarianship; libraries building communities; poverty and library services; adult lifelong learning and literacy; theories of reading; libraries as cultural heritage institutions; and public librarianship.

McCook has written for Progressive Librarian, Public Libraries, Public Library Quarterly, Reference and User Services Quarterly, Library Quarterly, Library Journal, American Libraries, Catholic Library World, Web Junction, Threshold, and Library Trends. She has contributed to, edited, and assisted with books; including The Role of Women in Librarianship 1876-1976: The Entry, Advancement, and Struggle for Equalization in One Profession (Oryx Press); The Status of Women in Librarianship: Historical, Sociological and Economic Issues (Neal-Schuman); Career Profiles of Librarians (American Library Association); On Account of Sex: An Annotated Bibliography on the Status of Women in Librarianship 1977-1981 (with Katharine Phenix. American Library Association); Librarians for the New Millennium (American Library Association); Occupational Entry: Library and Information Science Students' Attitudes, Demographics and Aspirations (American Library Association); Adult Services: an Enduring Focus for Public Libraries (American Library Association); Partners for Lifelong Learning: Public Libraries and Adult Education (US Dept. of Education); Library Services to Youth of Hispanic Heritage (McFarland, 2000); A Place at the Table: Participating in Community Building (ALA Editions, 2000); and Libraries & Democracy: The Cornerstones of Liberty (ALA Editions, 2001),Introduction to Public Librarianship (Neal-Schuman, 2004).

McCook facilitates the “Librarian-At-the-Kitchen-Table” and "Union Librarian" blogs. She is a past president of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (1987), recipient of the American Library Association Achievement in Library Diversity Research Award, Beta Phi Mu Award, Elizabeth Futas Award, and Equality Award. Kathleen de la Peña McCook was also REFORMA’s 2002 Latina Librarian of the Year. In 2007 she received the Florida Library Association, Lifetime Achievement Award.[1].

McCook is active in the Tampa Bay, Florida area, having participated in the Community Action Board of Hillsborough County, and in an Asset Mapping for Youth Development community initiative. McCook is a community activist, a senator for the United Faculty of Florida union, and a past member of the Coordinating Committee of the Progressive Librarians Guild. She now serves on the editorial board of the journal, Progressive Librarian.

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