Andrew K. Pace

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Andrew K. Pace is an American librarian and author. He has served as executive director of the University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions (USMAI) Library Consortium since March 2022, after fifteen years working in various leadership positions at OCLC. [1]

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Career

From 2008 to 2009 Pace served as president of the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA). [2] He was the author of the "Technically Speaking" column for American Libraries magazine. [3] [4] In 2013 he was elected councilor-at-large for the American Library Association (ALA). In 2016 he was elected to serve a three-year term on the ALA executive board and ran for ALA Treasurer in 2019, losing the election to Maggie Farrell, dean of university libraries at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. [5] [6]

Between 1999 and 2007 Pace was Head of Information Technology for North Carolina State University Libraries. [7] In 2002 Pace was named "Librarian of the Year" at the 15th annual DRA User's Conference. [8] In 2004 Pace was appointed to the leadership team responsible for the coordination and planning of National Information Standards Organization MetaSearch Initiative. [9] Prior working at NCSU he worked at a product manager for Innovative Interfaces, a library software vendor. Between 2007 and 2022, Pace held various leadership positions at OCLC, including executive director for Technical Research and executive director for Management Services. [10]

He holds a BA in rhetoric and communications studies from the University of Virginia and an MSLS from the Catholic University of America. [5]

Publications

Pace's major work includes the 2003 book, The Ultimate Digital Library: Where the New Information Players Meet. He maintains the blog, Hectic Pace. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ Fowler, Katia (2022-03-10). "USMAI Welcomes Executive Director Andrew K. Pace". USMAI Member Portal. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
  2. ↑ "LITA Presidents". Library Information Technology Association. 24 July 2006. Retrieved February 27, 2022.
  3. ↑ "Discovery to Delivery Speakers".
  4. ↑ "Technically Speaking column archive". Archived from the original on 2009-03-31. Retrieved 2009-03-13.
  5. 1 2 "Pace running for 2019-22 ALA treasurer". American Library Association News and Press Center. 2018-08-27. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
  6. ↑ "Farrell Elected ALA Treasurer". American Library Association News and Press Center. 2019-04-10. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
  7. ↑ "Andrew Pace". Library Information Technology Association. 28 September 2006. Retrieved February 27, 2022.
  8. ↑ "NCSU Libraries' Andrew K. Pace Receives Technology Award" (PDF). North Carolina State University Libraries. March 12, 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 4, 2009. Retrieved February 27, 2022.
  9. ↑ "Librarian Andrew K. Pace Co-leads National Information Standards Initiative" (PDF). North Carolina State University Libraries. January 29, 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 17, 2008. Retrieved February 27, 2022.
  10. ↑ "Andrew K. Pace, Author at OCLC Next". OCLC Next. Retrieved 2017-05-16.
  11. ↑ "Hectic Pace". Hectic Pace. Retrieved 2017-05-15.
  12. ↑ Antelman, Kristen; Lynema, Emily; Pace, Andrew K. (2006-09-01). "Toward a Twenty-First Century Catalog". Information Technology and Libraries. 25 (3): 128–139. doi: 10.6017/ital.v25i3.3342 . ISSN   2163-5226.
  13. ↑ Pace, Andrew (2009-10-19). "21st Century Library Systems". Journal of Library Administration. 49 (6): 641–650. doi:10.1080/01930820903238834. ISSN   0193-0826. S2CID   62722626.
  14. ↑ Fluvog, Jill; Collins, Maria; Hale, Dawn; Pace, Andrew K.; Sinclair, Gwen (2015-05-19). "Meeting the E-Resources Challenge through Collaboration: An OCLC Perspective on Effective Management, Access, and Delivery of Electronic Collections". The Serials Librarian. 68 (1–4): 168–172. doi:10.1080/0361526X.2015.1016857. ISSN   0361-526X. S2CID   57769620.
  15. ↑ Pace, Andrew K. (2015-01-02). "Closing the Gap". Serials Review. 41 (1): 3–7. doi:10.1080/00987913.2014.999854. ISSN   0098-7913. S2CID   220296977.
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