M. Claire Stewart

Position Title: 
Head, Digital Collections and Scholarly Communication Services
Job Information
Division: 
Library Technology
Department: 
LTD Digital Collections
Unit: 
Center for Scholarly Communication
Profile Photo: 
Contact Information
Phone: 
+1 (847) 467 1437
City: 
Evanston
State: 
Illinois
Zipcode: 
60208
Bio
About: 

Committees and service

As of February, 2013

  • American Library Association
    • Association of College and Research Libraries
      • Research and Scholarly Environment Committee, July 2012 -
    • Google Books Task Force, 2009 - 2011
    • Office for Information Technology Policy
      • Digitization Task Force, 2007-2009
      • Copyright Advisory Subcommittee, 2005-2009.
        • L Ray Patterson Award Committee, 2008
    • Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, Preservation and Reformatting Section
      • Reformatting: Analog and Digital Committee, 2007-2009
      • Standards and Practices Committee, 2009-present
    • Library Information Technology Association, Technology and Access committee, member and liaison to LITA Legislation and Regulation Committee, 2006-2008
    • Video Round Table
      •     Fair use best practices working group member, 2007-present
      •     Program chair, 2008
      •     Program committee, 2009
  • Association of Research Libraries, University Information Policy Officers, 2011-present
  • Black Metropolis Research Consortium
    • Audiovisual and photographic materials committee co-chair, 2008-2010
  • Committee for Institutional Cooperation
    • Data Storage Working Group, 2011 – present
      • Researcher profiles subcommittee, co-chair, 2012
    • Digital Library Initiatives Oversight Committee
      • Northwestern University representative, 2000-2007
      • Chair, 2006-2007
  • Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) Digital Collections User Group, 2006-2008
    • Standards subcommittee chair, 2007-2008
  • Hathi Trust Partnership
    • Hathi Collections Committee, 2010 – present
  • Northwestern University
    • Summer digital humanities workshop steering team, January 2013 - present
    • Northwestern Scholars Steering Committee, June 2012 – present
    • Research Storage Design Group, April 2012 – November 2012
    • Storage Task Force (NUIT), 2010 – 2012
    • Fellow, Wayne V. and Elizabeth R. Jones Fine and Performing Arts Residential College, 2005-2007
    • Art History Slide Library/Visual Media Collection ad-hoc committee, 2003-2005
    • Graduate School Electronic Theses and Dissertations Committee, 2002-2005
    • University Web Steering Committee, 2001-2005
    • Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) program, steering group and instructor, 2008-2011
    • Technology in Learning and Teaching (TiLT) program, steering group and instructor, 1995 - 2003
    • University Library
      • Management Council, 2007 – present
      • Library Technology Division department heads, 2012 - present
      • Center for Scholarly Communication and Digital Curation
        • Copyright working group, chair, 2011-present
        • E-science working group, 2012-present
      • Repository Services Operations Group, chair, 2011-present
      • Enterprise Systems Coordinating Committee, 2011-present
      • Scholarly Communications Committee, 2008-present
      • Special Libraries Division department heads, 2007 - 2011
      • Digital Library Coordinating Committee
        • Member, 2008-2011
        • Policy Subcommittee, 2008-2011
      • Repository Implementation Group, 2008-2011; co-chair, 2009 - 2011
      • Digital Library Committee
        • Member, 2000-2008
        • Archiving and File Formats Subcommittee, chair, 2002-2003
        • Metadata Subcommittee, 2001-2003
      • Special Libraries Copies and Permissions Task Force co-chair, 2008-2010
      • Northwestern Google project planning team, 2007-2010
      • Assembly of Librarians
        • Speakers Committee, 2008-2009
        • Hearings and appeals, 2007-2008, 2012-2013
        • President, 2004-2005
        • Nominating Committee, 1999-2000
      • University Library Staff Development Committee, 2003-2005
      • Bibliographic Access to Electronic Resources Committee, 2000-2002, 2005
      • Library Web Development Group, 1996-1999
      • Voyager Implementation
        • Voyager Implementation Committee, 1998-1999
        • Voyager Implementation Technical Team, 1998-1999
        • Liaison, College of Arts and Sciences MultiMedia Learning Center and School of Speech Media Services Group, 1998-2000
      • Search committees since 2004
        • Reference Librarian, 2004
        • Core/Reserve Librarian, 2005
        • Head, Preservation Department, 2006
        • Scholarly Communications Librarian, 2007-2008
        • Visual Resources Librarian, chair, 2008
        • Preservation Librarian, 2010
        • Moving Image and Sound Preservation Specialist, chair, 2010
        • Enterprise Systems Developer, multiple positions, 2009, 2010, 2011
        • Head, Art Collection, 2013
Presentations & Publications
Presentations: 

Dunn, J., & Stewart, C. (2012). Variations on Video: Collaborating toward a robust, open system to provide access to library media collections. Presentation presented at The 7th International Conference on Open Repositories, Edinburgh UK, July 12.

Stewart, C. (2012). Ubiquitous video: can libraries offer it? (Or can libraries adapt?). Panel presentation presented at the American Library Association 2012 Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA, June 23.

Stewart, C. (2012). Foundations of Creation. Keynote address presented at Digital Directions, Northeast Document Conservation Center, Boston MA, June 13.

Khanna, D., Dunn, J., Frost, H., Stewart, C., & Vinopal, J. (2011). “Strategies for Video and Film Digitization.” Working Session presented at the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Fall Forum 2011, Baltimore, MD.

Karle-Zenith, Anne, David Lowe, and M. Claire Stewart (2010). “Copyright and Book Digitization Workflows: Breaking the 1923 Barrier.” Presentation. Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Fall 2010 Membership Meeting, December 13, Washington, D.C.

Stewart, Claire (2010). “Preservation Metadata.” Online presentation. Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) Metadata Matters Series, December 7.

Dunn, Jon, and M. Claire Stewart (2010). “Variations on Video: Issues and Opportunities with Streaming Video.” Presentation, project update. Digital Library Federation (DLF) Fall Forum 2010, November 2, Palo Alto, CA.

Stewart, Claire (2010). “Challenges in Building and Scaling Media Streaming Services.” Presentation. Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) Video Streaming Symposium, July 22.

Parod, Bill, Karen Miller and Claire Stewart (2009). “An Interative Approach to Building Sustainable Repository Services on Fedora.” Presentation. Open Repositories 2009 Conference, May 29.

DiDomenico, Steve and Claire Stewart (2009). “Mounting Books Project.” Presentation. Open Repositories 2009 Conference, May 19.

DiDomenico, Steve and Claire Stewart (2009). “Web-based Workflow Software to Support Book Digitization and Dissemination.” Presentation. Coalition for Networked Information Spring 2009 meeting, April 7.

Stewart, M. Claire (2007). “Metadata in practice at Northwestern University Library.” Panel presentation. ALCTS Networked Resources and Metadata Interest Group program. American Library Association Annual Conference, June 24.

"Copyright 101." (2006, 2007). American Library Association Office of Information Technology Policy Copyright Advisory Subcommittee. Poster program. American Library Association Annual Conference, June 26, 2006, June 25, 2007, and June 30, 2008.

Stewart, M. Claire (2006). "Digital Rights Management and the Library: What do your garage door opener and your subscription databases have in common?" Panel presentation. Art Libraries Society of North America, Midstates Chapter 2006 Fall Meeting, November 11.

Stewart, M. Claire (2006). "Are we there yet: The State of Digital Access and Media Today." Moderator and panelist. Video Round Table program. American Library Association Annual Conference, June 25.

Stewart, M. Claire, Louis King (2005). "Community Collaboration to Institutional Repositories: A Multifaceted Perspective on Digital Asset Management Part 1" and "Digital Asset Management: A Practical Compendium Part 2." Track presentations. New Media Consortium Summer Conference. June 16.

Stewart, M. Claire (2005). “The Law and the Real World: Coping with Uncertainty.” Keynote presentation. Copyright in a Digital World. Illinois OCLC Users Copyright Workshop, Chicago, IL and Springfield, IL. April 19 and 21.

Stewart, M. Claire (2005). “Campuswide services (eLearning II).” Panel presentation with Kaspar Stromme and Les Finken. 7th Annual SURA/ViDE Conference. March 29.

Baker, Stuart and M. Claire Stewart (2004). “High resolution image delivery: toolkits and solutions.” Track presentation. New Media Consortium Annual Meeting. Vancouver, BC. June 19.

Stewart, M. Claire (2004). “Copyright and Digital Rights Management.” Instructor, half day pre-conference. New Media Consortium Annual Meeting. Vancouver, BC, June 16.

Stewart, M. Claire (2004). “Legal Issues.” Panel presentation. Economics of Digitization: Towards Sustainability and Institutional Collaboration. Newberry Library, Chicago. May 17-18, 2004.

Stewart, M. Claire (2004). “Thinking about Digital Rights Management.” Keynote presentation. New Media Consortium 2004 Spring Online conference. March 8.

King, Louis, Brian Nielsen and M. Claire Stewart (2004). “Planning for Ecological Diversity in New Learning Environments: Interoperability Between Libraries and Course Management Systems.” Track presentation. EDUCAUSE/NLII 2004 Annual Meeting, San Diego. January 26.

Stewart, M. Claire (2003). “Is your library/media center digital ready?” Panel presentation with Jon Dunn and Allan Rough. ALCTS program, ALA Annual Conference, Toronto, ON. June.

Dougherty, M Claire. “The Digital Library: Architecture for Learning in the 21st Century.” Coordinator, panelist and presenter, full day preconference. EDUCAUSE 2000, Nashville, TN, October 10.

Dougherty, M.C. (2000). “Video on Demand at Northwestern.” Invited presentation, Byting Into Video. Joint ACRL Media Resources / ALA Video Round Table program, ALA Annual Conference, July 9.
 
Dougherty, M.C. (2000). “Incorporating Animation into Online Tutorials.” Invited presentation. ACRL Instruction Section, ALA 2000 Annual Preconference, July 7.

Coordinator and panelist, Digital Libraries track. New Media Centers (now New Media Consortium) 2000 Annual Conference, Charlottesville, Va, June 7-10.

Kornbluh, M., M. Seadle, J. Goldman, M.C. Dougherty (1999). “A National Gallery of the Spoken Word.” Project report, DLI2 All-projects meeting, Ithaca, NY, October 1999.

Dougherty, M. C. (1999). “Northwestern University’s Electronic Reserve System.” Invited presentation, Electronic Reserves: At the crossroads of Document Access and Technology. American Association of Law Libraries annual meeting, Washington, D.C., July 1999.
   
Dougherty, M.C. (1998). “Copyright Concerns in a Wired Age: Fair Use and Multimedia.” Invited presentation. Illinois School Library Media Association (ISLMA) Annual Conference, Arlington Heights, IL, November 1998.

Dougherty, M.C. (1998). “Collaborating with IT groups to promote technology training.” Track presenter, ASIS midyear meeting, Orlando, FL, May 1998.

Panelist. Copyright issues for librarians. Illinois State Library Videoconference series, Springfield, IL, February 1998.

Dougherty, M.C. (1997). “Exercising Fair Use in Northwestern University’s Electronic Reserve System.” Invited presentation, Wired and Wary, Legal Issues for Librarians in the Digital World, ACRL New England conference, Boston, MA, November 1997.
 
Dougherty, M.C., S. Baker, S. Gautsch (1997). “Developing a Model for Distributed Multimedia Learning Environments.” Track session, Hot topics, EDUCOM 1997 Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN, October 1997. 
Gautsch, S., M.C. Dougherty, S. Baker (1997). “Faculty Development with TiLT (Technology in Learning and Teaching).” Track session, New Media Centers Annual Conference, Pomona, CA, June 1997.
Dougherty, M.C. (1997). “Electronic Reserve at Northwestern University.” Panel presentation, ACRL E-reserves Discussion Group, American Library Association Midwinter Conference, Washington, D.C., February 1997.

Swords Steffen, S., B. Nielsen, M.C. Dougherty (1995). “Computing Center/Library Cooperation in the Development of a Major University Service: Northwestern's Electronic Reserve System.”  Track presentation, CAUSE Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, November 1995. Proceedings, http://www.educause.edu/asp/doclib/abstract.asp?ID=CNC9561
 
Swords Steffen, S., M.C. Dougherty (1995). “Northwestern University’s Electronic Reserve System.” Invited presentation, NOTIS Users Group (NUGM) annual meeting, Chicago, IL, October 1995.
 

Selected projects and ongoing work

Avalon Media System

The Winterton Collection of East African Photographs

Transportation Library Menu Collection

16th-20th Century Maps of Africa

Digital library projects in progress (frequently updated)

Archival collections (EAD gateway)

Academic Commons

Pachyderm

De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Vesalius)

Teaching and Learning with Technology

Imagining an integrated future (Feb. 2004 CIC conference on Library/Course Management interoperability)

DVAction (was EUCLID)

History and Politics Out Loud

Video Encyclopedia of the Twentieth Century

EAD projects at Northwestern

New Media Centers Midwest '99

French and Italian Department's 1999 Distinguished Speakers series

Videopaths Through U.S. Politics

Voyager implementation: MMLC and School of Speech

Digital Video Reserve

Hogarth online exhibit

Journalism citation database

 

Publications: 

Stewart, C. (2012). Preservation and Access in an Age of E-Science and Electronic Records: Sharing the Problem and Discovering Common Solutions. Journal of Library Administration, 52(3-4), 265–278. doi:10.1080/01930826.2012.684505

Lamoreaux, Edward Lee, Steven L. Baron, and Claire Stewart (2009). “Intellectual Property Law and New Media: Free for a Fee.” New York: Peter Lang Publishing.

Stewart, Claire (2009). “Not Your Father's Electronic Reserve: Online Media Delivery for Courses.” Library Issues, January 2009.

Stewart, M. Claire (2006). “Workshop report: Digital content and issues for libraries.” Brief report. ALCTS Newsletter Online 17.3.

Christopher Cox, Hui Hua Chua, M. Claire Stewart, S.G. Ranti Junus (2006). "American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting Report." Brief report. Library Hi Tech News 23.3 (2006): 5-12.

Goldman, J. Steve Renals, Steven Bird, Franciska de Jong, Marcello Federico, Carl Fleischhauer, Mark Kornbluh, Lori Lamel, Douglas W. Oard, Claire Stewart and Richard Wright (2005). “Accessing the Spoken Word.” International Journal on Digital Libraries. Springer-Verlag GmbH. May 12.

Cervone, H. Frank and M. Claire Stewart (2003). “Building a new infrastructure for digital media: Northwestern University Library.” Information Technology and Libraries, vol. 22 no.2 June 2003.

Dougherty, M.C. (2002). “Migrating e-reserves from a home grown web to an integrated online library system.” In: Rosedale, J. (ed.). Managing Electronic Reserves. Chicago: ALA Editions, 2002.