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Kathleen de la Pe帽a McCook

Distinguished University Professor

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BIO

Kathleen de la Pe帽a 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, , , , ,  for literary merit by the Catholic Library World and as . She currently writes "."

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

  • "" (with Elaine Harger):Social Responsibilities Newsletter. 223.  American Library Association. (October, 2023): 1-93. ULW SRRT newsletter.pdf (ala.org)
  • 鈥淒iversity of LIS School Students: Trends Over the Past 30 Years鈥� (with JungWon Yoon). Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. (2021).
  • Introduction to Public Librarianship. 3rd Ed. Chicago: ALA Editions, 2018.
  • 鈥淔rom the One Mule Tenant Farmer to the Hillbilly Highway: How Librarians can Support the White Working Class.鈥� The Library Quarterly 87 (July 2017).