Biography

Dr. Andrew White has 30+ years of experience in academic libraries including public and technical services, as well as information systems administration. He is currently the Director of Library Information Services at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. Prior to coming to Rensselaer, he was the Associate Chief Information Officer and Senior Director for Research Computing at Stony Brook University. From 2013 until 2016, he held a faculty position in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, working with teams on various healthcare data analytics projects.

Starting in July 2009, Andrew served as the Director of Stony Brook’s Health Sciences Library, as was named as Stony Brook’s Interim Director of Libraries and Dean of Library Services in December that same year. Andrew came to Stony Brook University from serving as an Associate Dean at Adelphi University Libraries. Before his tenure at Adelphi he held a variety of positions in Stony Brook University libraries.

Andrew holds degrees in library science from Queens College and music from Stony Brook University and the City University of New York. He has contributed articles to the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Computers in Libraries, LCATS, and The Electronic Library. Dr. White is also co-author of E-metrics for Library and Information Professionals, published in both the USA and UK, and translated into Russian. Andrew was a UCLA Senior Fellow and has been a member of the American Chemical Society Publications Customer Advisory Panel. He is currently a member of EBSCO’s Academic Advisory Board and Elsevier's North American Library Advisory Board