Greg McClay - Nominee

Greg McClay is the Circulation Supervisor for the Billerica Public Library. He is originally from Mars Hill, Maine where he grew up watching 4 television channels, one CBS, one PBS and two Canadian. Graduating high school in 1990 he attended college at Southern Connecticut State University where he earned a Bachelors and Masters in Library Science and also learned the wonders of cable and HBO. During his time there he took several courses on creating and developing promotional materials which included such advanced technologies as creating slides, posters and soundtracks on cassette tape and using a text-only internet for listservs of book discussion groups. After finishing school in 1995 he spent 5 years as Reference Librarian at the Tewksbury Public Library, exploring the beginning of a graphics based internet with AOL on his first personal computer, a Monorail, including learning basic HTML. Shortly after coming to the Billerica Public Library in the Fall of 2000, he became a member of BATV and assisted, and continues to assist, in the production of the semi-monthly program Library Lowdown. From deck-to-deck to Final Cut, SVHS to Firestore, plus Blogger, YouTube, Flickr and numerous other technologies Greg's membership with BATV, along with his various roles at the Billerica Library, has been part of an ongoing education in community participation and communication through new and better technology.