Mac Martino is a Business & Social Sciences Librarian at the Loop
Library. They are the subject specialist for Economics, Finance &
Real Estate, the School of Accountancy & MIS, and the School of
Cinematic Arts.
Mac attended DePaul and graduated in 2017 with a Bachelor of Arts in
Communication and Media and a minor in Digital Cinema. In their final
year, Mac was a Peer Research Tutor in the Richardson Library, helping
students with navigating and accessing library resources. Interested in
continuing to work in libraries, they worked in several public and
research libraries throughout Chicagoland, gaining experience across all
library functions. They then worked toward and received their Master of
Science in Library and Information Science from the University of
Illinois in 2022 through the online LEEP program.
In August 2023, Mac returned to DePaul as a part-time Reference
Librarian in the Richardson Library, largely continuing similar but
expanded responsibilities when they were a Peer Research Tutor. After
three years of serving with the library, Mac was promoted full-time to a
Business & Social Sciences Librarian and transferred to the Loop
Library in August 2026. In addition to serving as a subject-specialist,
Mac is passionate about library instruction and reference service and is
always looking to improve. They serve on the Instruction Tutorial and
Instruction working groups, working on all aspects of library tutorials
and assessing first-year instruction.
Outside of the library, Mac plays and follows basketball (go Bulls and
Sky!), practices piano and producing in Ableton, dabbles in Nintendo
Switch games, and regularly bakes breads and various sweets.