Kenneth Roy (Ken) Haycock (February 15, 1948 in Hamilton, Ontario) is senior partner with Ken Haycock & Associates Inc.,[1] focusing on authentic governance and leadership in the not-for-profit sector. He is adjunct professor at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane and professor emeritus and former director at San Jose State University and the University of British Columbia.
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Ken Haycock was born February 15, 1948 in Hamilton, Ontario to Bruce Frederick Travis Haycock and Doris Marion Page Downham. His mother was an English war bride, emigrating at age 19 and his father a veteran of the European theatre. Although his parents were only 22 and 25 at his birth, and relatively unschooled, they were far ahead of their time in both working outside the home and sharing parenting and home-making. They also valued education and insisted that their three sons, Ken, Lorne and Rick, finish high school and advance to university.
Ken Haycock attended elementary school in Hamilton, Ontario and elementary and secondary school in London, Ontario; B.A. in Political Science and Dip.Ed. in Education (University of Western Ontario, 1968, 1969); Specialist Certificate in School Librarianship (University of Toronto, 1970); M.Ed. in Curriculum and Foundations (University of Ottawa, 1972); A.M.L.S. in Library and Information Science (University of Michigan, 1974); Ed.D. in Administration and Leadership (Brigham Young, 1991); M.B.A. in Human Resources Management (Royal Roads University, 2004).
Ken Haycock began his professional career as a secondary school teacher and department head in 1969 at age 21, first at Glebe Collegiate Institute and then Colonel By Secondary School in Ottawa, Ontario. By age 24 he was educational media consultant with the Wellington County Board of Education in Guelph, Ontario, before moving to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1976 at age 28 as coordinator of the Vancouver School Board’s 115 school, school/public and special libraries.
After a distinguished career in teaching and librarianship, Ken Haycock became a member of the senior management team of the Vancouver (British Columbia) School Board, a $600 million not-for-profit organization, in 1984, responsible for curriculum and program development and implementation, curriculum resources and technologies and staff development for 7,000 employees (during this time he was also principal of a large elementary school).
In 1992 he returned to librarianship as tenured full professor and director of the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia where he was recognized for his research, teaching and service through regular merit and recognition awards. During his tenure the School developed a First Nations concentration, a Master of Arts in Children’s Literature, a dual Master of Library and Information Studies and Master of Archival Studies degree program and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) program. Research funding increased from hundreds of dollars to millions of dollars each year, with each member of faculty holding a research grant when he completed his second term in 2002.
In 2005, Dr. Haycock became professor and director at the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University, now the largest accredited LIS program in the world, with more than 3,000 graduate students in 47 states and 14 countries. The School is nationally ranked by U.S. News and World Report and recognized as the #1 e-learning service provider in the field. During his tenure, the School was the recipient of a faculty innovation award from the Association of Library and Information Science Education,[2] a marketing award from the California Library Association and a quality assurance and assessment award from San Jose State University.
In 2010, Dr. Haycock took a one year appointment as Follett Chair in Library and Information Science at Dominican University in Chicago.
As senior partner at Ken Haycock & Associates Inc., Dr. Haycock’s consultancies and special assignments include as a CEO for a large regional public library system experiencing significant financial and organizational challenges, as search consultant for several academic and public library leadership positions, governance, program and financial reviews for not-for-profit agencies, colleges and city governments and improvements in graduate education. He blogs weekly on Library Leadership.
Dr. Haycock has been an active and contributing member of the library profession since 1969. In 1974 he was elected president of the Canadian School Library Association and in 1977 the youngest ever president of the Canadian Library Association. He has also served as a union local president, public library trustee (Guelph, Ontario; West Vancouver, British Columbia), elected school board trustee and chair (West Vancouver), and municipal councilor (West Vancouver). Haycock has been 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 also past president of the American Association of School Librarians (1997–1998), the Association of Library and Information Science Education[3] (2005–2006), former member of the American Library Association (ALA) Executive Board (1996–2000) and Vice-President of the California Library Association (2009), among many others. He is a member (2008–2012) and currently incoming chair (2011–2012) of the American Library Association Committee on Accreditation,[4] chair (2011–2012) of the West Vancouver Arts Centre Trust (dba Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts). He is a member of the executives of both the provincial and federal political riding associations in his community.
At the University of British Columbia, he chaired theGraduate 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. At San Jose he served on the Executive Council of the College of Applied Sciences and Arts and the University Council of Chairs and Directors. He also led strategic planning exercises with several academic units at the departmental, School and College levels.
Ken Haycock’s areas of special interest and accomplishments are education for library and information studies; board governance; management and leadership; role clarification and effectiveness; organizational development; advocacy and influence. He has held research grants for studies of directors of large urban public libraries, staff development, youth services in public libraries, the connection between selected school library characteristics and student achievement, and program effectiveness. His active consulting practice focuses on developing capacity for leadership, advocacy and collaboration, with attention to executive searches and improved governance.
Dr. Haycock has more than 150 publications to his credit. His recent (since 2005) work has included The Portable MLIS: Insights from the Experts[5] (Greenwood/Libraries Unlimited, (2008) edited with Brooke Sheldon, book chapters and conference papers, and refereed articles in the Australian Library Journal, Education for Library and Information Science Education,[6] Library Management,[7] New Library World,[8] School Libraries Worldwide,[9] and Library Trends.[10]
Several associations and organizations have established awards to honor the contributions of Ken Haycock, including
Dr. Haycock has been selected for recognition in the Canadian Who’s Who: A biographical dictionary of notable living men and women (University of Toronto Press), Something About The Author (Thomson Gale), Who’s Who in America (Marquis), Who’s Who in American Education (Marquis), Who’s Who in Library and Information Services (American Library Association), Who’s Who in the West (Marquis), and Who’s Who in the World (Marquis).
His complete curriculum vitae is available at http://slisweb.sjsu.edu[19]