Dr. Day earned his Masters in Philosophy and his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton, and an additional Masters degree in Library and Information Science from the University of California at Berkeley. He is an Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Dr. Day is the author of articles on the historical, social, and cultural contexts of documentation, information, and knowledge and the author of The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History, and Power (Southern Illinois University Press, 2001).