Stephen Bales

Stephen Bales is a Professor at Texas A&M University. He has a master’s degree in Information Science and a PhD. in Communication and Information from the University of Tennessee—Knoxville. His research areas include the philosophy of librarianship, and ideology of the library. He sole-authored two monographs, The Dialectic of Academic Librarianship: A Critical Approach and Social Justice and Library Work: A Guide to Theory and Practice, and co-authored a third, Transformative Library and Information Work: Profiles in Social Work. He is General Editor of the Journal of Radical Librarianship.