Stephen Roberts is the Associate Vice President for University Libraries at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He has held this position since October 2007.

Steve joined the University Libraries in 1977 charged to oversee the migration of major library units from the South to the North Campus. During the succeeding thirty years, the University Libraries have benefited from his strategic leadership in the transition to computerized library systems and services as well as the integration of online resources.

Steve holds a BA in English from Johns Hopkins University, and an MLS from the University at Buffalo, and a Masters of Art in Teaching from Brown University. He has been an investigator in numerous nationally-sponsored grant programs funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Council on Library Resources that have focused on the utilization of emerging technologies to facilitate sharing of costly resources and publications among research libraries, or on the implementation of technologies to enhance use and access to special collections.