Tim Wales

Tim Wales was University Librarian at Cranfield University, Cranfield (UK) from May 2022 to October 2025. In the previous decade he has held UK research/academic library leadership positions at Brunel University London, Rothamsted Research, the University of West London and London Business School, after “earning his stripes” as a manager at Royal Holloway, University of London, a subject librarian at the Open University (Milton Keynes) and a researcher at a boutique investment bank. His first job after graduating from the University of East Anglia was a trade journalist in the furniture industry before he completed his MSc in Information Science at City, University London.

Tim has written on a diverse range of professional topics including: library strategy; business librarianship; library technologies; information literacy and veterinarian information-seeking behaviour. He is a chartered member of CILIP, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and an editorial board member of the New Review of Academic Librarianship journal. He is married with one cat and lives in Hertfordshire, England.