Kimberly Silk is a librarian, evaluator, teacher, researcher, and advocate who empowers libraries to use data to inform decision-making, support advocacy, and communicate impact.
Kim’s consulting work, training, and teaching focus on building capacity in libraries to use evaluation and evidence to measure progress toward strategic goals, improve operations, and demonstrate outcomes. She is a sessional instructor at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information and a Bowden Fellow at the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin.
She is co-author of “So Much More: The Economic Impact of Toronto Public Library on the City of Toronto,” published in 2013 and the first library economic impact study of its kind in Canada. Her collaboration with Dr. Bill Irwin, “Creating a Culture of Evaluation: Taking Your Library from Talk to Action“, was published by OLA Press in May 2017. In 2014 she launched the Library Research Network, a not-for-profit, curated, repository of research relevant to libraries.
Kim is a member of the Ontario Library Association, the American Library Association, and the Canadian Evaluation Society. She is a an officer of IFLA’s Statistics and Evaluation Committee and a member of IFLA’s Library Impact training team. Past volunteer activity includes serving on the SLA Board of Directors (2013-2017), as Past President (2013) of the SLA Toronto chapter, and as past president of the Faculty of Information Alumni Association (2009-2011). She earned her M.L.S. at the University of Toronto and a Graduate Certificate in Evaluation from the University of Victoria. She lives with her family in Toronto, Canada.
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Land Acknowledgement
I am a descendent of the Métis people of the Red River Settlement, of an English settler on Treaty #2 lands in southeastern Saskatchewan, and of a Scottish settler family on Treaty #3 lands, known today as Hamilton, Ontario.
Today I live and work in Tkaronto, now known as Toronto, which in Mohawk means ‘where there are trees standing in the water’. Today, Tkaronto is covered under Treaty #13 and the Williams Treaties. It is the traditional territories of many First Peoples, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples. I am grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.
I am dedicated to learning about my country’s true history and the roles my ancestors played, including the horrors inflicted on Canada’s First Peoples. By learning and acknowledging the truth, I can be an active participant in moving towards reconciliation.