Andrew K. Pace

Andrew K. Pace is the head of systems at the North Carolina State University Libraries (Raleigh, N.C.). After completing his M.S.L.S. degree at the Catholic University of America's School of Library and Information Science in 1996, Pace took a job with the library automation vendor Innovation Interfaces in Emeryville, California. There he started on the help desk and eventually moved up to become product integration specialist for several successful products, including WebPAC, KidsOnline, Advanced Keyword Search, Z39.50 Client and Server, and Electronic Course Reserves. In 1999 he left his private-sector job to return to a university setting at the NCSU libraries. Pace has a regular column in Computers in Libraries magazine called "Coming Full Circle," and describes himself as both an iconoclastic traditionalist and a cynical optimist.