Brief Description: Papers (1976-2010) of Kathleen de la Peña McCook (formerly Heim), (Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship Chair, 1980-82), contains biographical materials general correspondence, project files and publications, administrative and fact-finding material relating to COSWL, including committee budgets, minutes, work on co-sponsored programs, new appointments, pay equity, re-entry of women librarians into profession, unemployment, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, COSWL-ERA, revision of the Library Bill of Rights, COSWL at the San Francisco ALA conference and a scrapbook honoring McCook for her work on COSWL (1982), includes biographical materials with CV and McCook's ALA presidential scrapbook (1991-92), project materials with background information, questionnaires, correspondence preliminary and final reports of career profiles and sex discrimination in the library profession (1983), Barabra Ford's ALA inaugural address (1996), Global Reach/Local Touch (1998), Robert Wedgeworth's speech on global librarianship at the midwinter President's Program (1998), "A Librarian at Every Table: Beyond Partnership to Community Building" (2000), "Women of Color in Librarianship: An Oral History" (1998), studies of eight female librarians of color, and papers by members of Ford's presidential advisory committees.

Record Series Number: 81/1/20

Created by: McCook, Kathleen de la Pena

Volume: 9.3 Cubic Feet

Acquired: 08/25/1983. 7/21/1998, 7/1/1999, 2/1/2000, 3/1/2002, 12/07/2010, 8/9/2013

Arrangement: Arranged by subject title

Biographical Note for McCook, Kathleen de la Pena :

Kathleen de la Peña McCook (formerly Heim) earned her MA in Library Science from the Graduate Library School at the University of Chicago in 1974, and her PhD from the School of Library and Information Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990. She has been a faculty member at Dominican University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Loiusiana State University. In 1992, she began teaching at the University of South Florida’s School of Information, where she holds the position of Distinguished University Professor since 2001.

McCook authored many articles on human rights, First Amendment issues, and freedom of information, as well as contributed to several books, including Service Learning, Libraries & Democracy: The Cornerstones of Liberty, and The Portable MLIS. She chaired the Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship between 1980 and 82 and served as the president of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) from 1987 to 1988.

The honors received by McCook include the Equality Award (ALA 1987), the Catalyst for Change Award (ALA 1998), Latino Librarian of the Year (REFORMA, 2002), the Hispanic Heritage Award (USF, 2003), Achievement in Library Diversity Research (ALA, 2004), ALA Emerging Leaders (ALA, 2008), the Carnegie Book Award (2014-2015), the Elizabeth Martinez Lifetime Achievement Award, (REFORMA, 2016), and the Joseph W. Lippincott Award for distinguished service to the profession of librarianship (ALA, 2019).

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