Penny Peck

Penny Peck is a Lecturer at the School of Information, San José State University, where she has served part-time since 2002. Her expertise focuses on children's/YA services, media curation, and multicultural outreach.

She holds an MLS (1977) from SJSU and a BA in History (1976) from California State University, Hayward. As a Senior Librarian at San Leandro Public Library (1986-2010), she specialized in youth programming, storytelling, and book club facilitation for grades 4-12.

• Author of three LIS textbooks on children's services
• Editor of BayNews newsletter since 1992
• Current Trustee of San Lorenzo Unified School District (2012-)

Her research emphasizes innovative storytime fundamentals, readers' advisory for tweens, and library programming for multicultural audiences.