After an impressive six-year run, Kathleen de la Peña McCook’s Community Building column in Reference and User Services Quarterly will be coming to an end.
The column—which Kathleen wrote, co-wrote, and edited—has routinely featured articles on the needs of low-income people and other socially excluded groups. With editorial changes at RUSQ, the journal is purportedly moving in new directions.
The HHPTF applauds Kathleen’s work and wishes her continued success in her professional pursuits. Among other recent projects, she authored Introduction to Public Librarianship and teaches a University of South Florida course titled “Librarians and Human Rights.”
RUSQ Community Building columns to date:
Volume 40, Number 1
“Librarians and Comprehensive Community Initiatives”
Kathleen de la Peña McCook
Volume 40, Number 2
“Service Integration and Libraries: Will 2-1-1 be the Catalyst for Renewal?”
Kathleen de la Peña McCook
Volume 40, Number 3
“Community Building and Latino Families”
Marcela Villagrán, Guest Columnist
Volume 40, Number 4
“Community Indicators, Genuine Progress, and the Gold Billion”
Kathleen de la Peña McCook and Kristen Brand, Guest Columnist
Volume 41, Number 1
“Collaboration Generates Synergy: Saint Paul Public Library, the College of St. Catherine, and the ‘Family Place’ Program”
Carol P. Johnson, Ginny Brodeen, Helen Humeston,
and Rebecca McGee, Guest Columnists
Volume 41, Number 2
“Authentic Discourse as a Means of Connection Between Public Library Services Responses and Community Building Initiatives”
Kathleen de la Peña McCook
Volume 41, Number 3
“Service to Day Laborers: A Job Libraries Have Left Undone”
Bruce Jensen, Guest Columnist
Volume 41, Number 4
“Cultural Heritage Institutions and Community Building”
Kathleen de la Peña McCook and Marla A. Jones, Guest Columnist
Volume 42, Number 1
“The African-American Research Library and Cultural Center
of the Broward County Library”
Henrietta M. Smith, Guest Columnist
Volume 42, Number 2
“Alaska Resources Library and Information Services: Building Community in the Forty-Ninth State”
Juli Braund-Allen and Daria O. Carle, Guest Columnists
Volume 42, Number 3
“Sustainable Communities and the Roles Libraries and Librarians Play”
Frederick W. Stoss, Guest Columnist
Volume 42, Number 4
“Using a Homeless Shelter as a Library Education Learning Laboratory: Incorporating Service-Learning in a Graduate-Level Information Sources and Services in the Social Sciences Course”
Lorna Peterson, Guest Columnist
Volume 43, Number 1
“Suppressing the Commons: Misconstrued Patriotism vs. a Psychology of Liberation”
Kathleen de la Peña McCook
Volume 43, Number 2
“Transformations of Librarianship in Support of Learning Communities”
Eino Sierppe, Guest Columnist
Volume 43, Number 3
“A Passion for Connection: Community Colleges Fulfill the Promise
of Cultural Institutions”
Carmine J. Bell, Guest Columnist
Volume 43, Number 4
“Community, Identity, and Literature”
Elaine Yontz, Guest Columnist
Volume 44, Number 1
“Public Libraries and People in Jail”
Kathleen de la Peña McCook
Volume 44, Number 2
“A Digital Library to Serve a Region: The Bioregion and First Nations Collections of the Southern Oregon Digital Archives”
Mary Jane Cedar Face and Deborah Hollens, Guest Columnists
Volume 44, Number 3
“The Homeless and Information Needs and Services”
Julie Hersberger, Guest Columnist
Volume 44, Number 4
“Building Lead-Free Communities”
Frederick W. Stoss, Guest Columnist
Volume 45, Number 1
“Human Rights and Librarians”
Kathleen de la Pena McCook and Katherine J. Phenix, Guest Columnist
Volume 45, Number 2
“Poverty, Poor People, and Our Priorities”
John Gehner, Guest Columnist
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