Mac Stewart

I am an Instructional Technologist in Research & Instructional Services. My main responsibilities are assisting faculty and students with the use of technology for teaching and learning, and providing assistance with systems such as the content management system and the learning management system. My professional interests include information architecture, database design, taxonomy and metadata, and distance learning and instructional design.

I began working in libraries as a college student worker in 1982. I earned my BA in Russian and Spanish from SUNY Oswego in 1985. Besides working in my college library for 3 full years, I have worked in a bookstore, a clothing store, as an editor, a grant writer, and a club DJ. I also studied for my MA in Slavic Languages at SUNY Albany for a year.

In 1986, I began working at the New York State Library as a rare books cataloger on a grant-funded project. After that project ended, I worked at Albany Medical Center as the Neurosurgery laboratory manager.  I moved for another library job at the University of Connecticut as a cataloger, and I worked there for 3 years. I began working at Wellesley College in July 1997, first as an Acquisition & Cataloging Assistant, then as Digital Library Specialist for 10 years. I also worked on weekends as a librarian at the New England College of Optometry in Boston from 1999 to 2011. 

I have lived in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts, except for my several escapes to Europe over the years. Currently, I live a block from Boston Harbor in East Boston and take the commuter rail or the Exchange bus to Wellesley every day. I have 3 cats who take care of things while I'm gone. I also have a vast music collection, including 150,000 digital files, about 8000 cds, records and tapes.