Andrew Pace

Andrew became Executive Director of the Association of Research Libraries 2024. He leads a team of scholarly communication, policy, advocacy, education, DEI, data, and governance experts for ARL’s 125 member libraries.

Prior to ARL, Andrew was executive director for the University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions library consortium. He held Executive Director positions at OCLC from 2008-2022, where he managed cloud-based application development and later led teams in OCLC Research focused on metadata policy, machine learning and data science, and applied research.

Andrew was Head of Information Technology at North Carolina State University Libraries from 1999-2007. He is active in the American Library Association and currently serves on ALA Council, NISO Board of Directors, and the U.S. FEDLINK Advisory Board.

He has presented at dozens of conferences and is the author of several works dealing with library technology, product and project management, and community building.