NCSU Libraries Focus Online
Volume 26 number 3 - Spring 2006
Andrew Pace Named Frye Institute Fellow
Andrew Pace, the NCSU Libraries’ head of Information Technology,
has been named a 2006 Frye Leadership Institute Fellow. Acceptance
into this program is prestigious and highly competitive. Only 18
percent of this year’s applicants were selected. The Frye
Leadership Institute provides an intensive two-week residential
program held in early June for faculty, librarians, and university
information technology professionals who aspire to more significant
leadership roles. The program focuses on creative leadership and
the qualities needed to confront strategic changes in higher education.
Participants also conduct a year-long practicum to explore, at
their own organizations, some of the key issues raised. Sponsored
by the Council of Library and Information Resources, EDUCAUSE,
the Woodruff Foundation and Emory University, the institute accepts
about forty-five Fellows each year.
Pace has already demonstrated national leadership in the digital
library arena. He guided the NCSU Libraries’ January deployment
of a revolutionary new online catalog that combines the speed and
flexibility of popular online search engines with the superior
classification expertise of librarians. A frequent national speaker
on information technology topics, Pace serves as director-at-large
of the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) Board
and as a columnist in American Libraries magazine. He
was cochair of the National Information Standards Organization
Metasearch Initiative. His book, The Ultimate Digital Library:
Where the New Information Players Meet (2003), explores library-vendor
relationships to show academic libraries how they can remain competitive
in the digital arena.
Pace was voted 2002 "DRA Librarian of the Year" at the
fifteenth annual Data Research Associates, Inc., Users Conference
for his contributions to library automation. Before joining the
NCSU Libraries in 1999, he worked as a product manager at Innovative
Interfaces, Inc. He holds the M.S.L.S. from Catholic University
of America and a B.A. with high distinction from the University
of Virginia. |
