Mark Paris is the Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources and Discovery at Brandeis University. His portfolio of services includes Collections (strategy, acquisitions, and technical services), Interlibrary Loan, Scholarly Communications, and Systems. Mark is a passionate believer in the transformative power of libraries where one can engage with and understand the world, and themselves, a little better. In a past life, Mark was on the path to being an ordained minister with a Bachelor of Arts from Lincoln Christian University and a Master of Divinity from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Since discovering libraries as a career path, Mark obtained his Master's in Library and Information Science from Simmons University and spent twelve years working for a library vendor before the last eight years at Brandeis.