Ken Haycock is professor emeritus and former director of the School of Information at San José State University. He has been president of several national and international professional and scholarly associations. He has held the Follett Chair in Library and Information Science at Dominican University and is Visiting Professor at Queensland University of Technology. Dr. Haycock has received research and service awards for outstanding contributions from several associations, including the American and Canadian Library Associations and the Association for Library and Information Science Education.
Dr. Haycock has worked in most library environments, as coordinator for a major school district, CEO of a regional public library system, manager of special libraries and on the review teams for academic libraries and museums. He has also been a senior official of a $400m public organization. As a community member, Dr. Haycock has been a public library trustee, elected school board president and municipal councilor. He was previously professor and director at the University of British Columbia.