Before joining Princeton as the Assistant University Librarian for Science and Engineering, Zac worked as an Engineering Librarian, with a focus in Research and Teaching Support, at Stanford University; including serving as Head Librarian of the Terman Engineering Library. Prior to Stanford, he worked at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, the Office of Science Information Management at the US EPA, and as an instructional designer and high school social studies teacher in North Carolina.

Zac’s research and practice interests include instruction for information literacy and research computing, maker culture and the open movement, government documents and technical reports, and emergency response operations. He holds an MSLS in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a BS in History, Secondary Education from Appalachian State University.