Stephen BalesStephen Bales is a Professor in Global Languages and Cultures 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 he 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. Read More Read Less