Frank D'Andraia is the Dean and Director of University Libraries at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He has held this position since August 2005. D'Andraia is UA's 9th Dean and Director of Libraries.

Before joining The University at Albany, D'Andraia was Dean and Professor of Library Services at The University of Montana, Missoula, Director of Libraries at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, Head of Technical Services at the University of California, Riverside and Assistant Director for Technical Services at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. He served in the U.S. Army from 1969 to 1971 and is the recipient of the Army Commendation Medal.

D'Andraia is an active member of the American Library Association and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). One of his more frequently cited articles, "The Business of Libraries is Staying in Business" (Journal of Library Administration, Volume 20), has resulted in several invitations to present on that subject at professional meetings, and he developed and edited "The Academic Library Director: Reflections on a Position in Transition" (Haworth Press, 1997), which received very positive reviews.

D'Andraia served on the editorial boards of Information Technology and Libraries and Resource Sharing and Information Networks. He has been a member of OCLC's Advisory Committee on College and University Libraries and NorthWestNet's Information Resources Advisory Board. He is a former Trustee of the North Dakota Coalition for Adult Literacy and a previous chair of the North Dakota Governor's Advisory Council on Libraries, The Nature Conservancy of the Dakotas Board of Trustees and Prairie Public Television Community Advisory Board. Recently D'Andraia was selected to chair ACRL's Marketing Academic and Research Libraries Committee, and, until his recent appointment at UA, was named to the Advisory Board of The University of Montana Press, to the Advisory Board of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center at the University of Montana, an academic center focusing on Asian Studies, to the Board of the Missoula Museum of Art, the Historic Preservation Committee for the City and County of Missoula, Montana, and to the Montana State Library's Montana Networking Task Force. In addition to his professional and philanthropic interests, Frank likes to raise dough and has received several blue ribbons in acknowledgment of his skills as an artisan baker.

Frank D'Andraia earned a Master of Library Science from Simmons College, a Master of Arts in History from Northeastern University and Bachelor of Science in Education from the University of Massachusetts at Boston (formerly Boston State College). He has done advance study at the University of Michigan. In 1993 he was selected to be a Senior Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, Graduate School of Library and Information Science and he is a member of Beta Phi Mu Honor Society. D'Andraia was raised in Massachusetts and his wife, Dana Dinwiddie D'Andraia, is a native of Michigan.