Mark Lenker

Mark Lenker is a Teaching and Learning Librarian and Associate Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He writes about philosophical questions that arise in library work, with a special interest in how people inform themselves about political matters. In The Human Relationship with Information (Routledge), Mark explores the philosophical side of library work in a way that is accessible to readers without philosophical training. He received the Best Article Award for 2017 from the journal portal: Libraries and the Academy for "Developmentalism: Learning as the Basis for Evaluating Information."

Mark also enjoys playing disc golf with his family. Read about his struggles to throw straight in the humorous essay “To Tame the Beast” in the collection Desert Superbloom: Las Vegas Writers on Scarcity and Abundance (Huntington Press).