Sebastien Marion

Sebastien Marion

Senior Librarian

New York Institute of Technology

Biography

Who am I? What am I doing? I am a higher education librarian specializing in libraries, knowledge management and contemporary literacies. I am an independent thinker, online educator and expert learner.

In addition to teaching research and information literacy methods, I serve on numerous strategic committees, and am a leader in planning initiatives designed to guide the university library of the future.

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Interests
  • Academic Libraries
  • Higher Education
  • Information Literacy
  • Knowledge Management
Education

  • Master of Business Administration, 2007

    New York Institute of Technology

  • Master of Information Science, 2000

    Western University, Canada

  • Honors Language and Literature , 1998

    Western University, Canada

Skills

Creativity

95%

Experience

90%

Technology

90%

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Librarian III, Assistant Professor
New York Institute of Technology
Jan 2017 – Present New York

Responsibilities include:

  • Communications & Marketing
  • Instruction
  • Personnel Evaluation
  • Virtual Services
 
 
 
 
 
Librarian II, Associate Professor
New York Institute of Technology
Jan 2008 – Dec 2016 New York

Responsibilities include:

  • Webmaster
  • Instruction
 
 
 
 
 
Librarian I, Instructor
New York Institute of Technology
Jun 2000 – Dec 2008 New York

Responsibilities include:

  • Serials
  • Reference

Accomplish­ments

Newsletters for Journalists
Knight Foundation Mar 2021
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Recent Posts

21st Century Literacies
Our students must acquire the skills and literacies to support a lifetime. Knowing how to manage personal knowledge. Knowing how to participate in learning networks. And, yes, knowing how to learn, and what it means to be information literate.
Last updated on Mar 23, 2021 2 min read
21st Century Literacies
Filling the Research Skills Gap
Guidance and advice for how students can hone their research skills in an era when those skills are being lost.
Last updated on Mar 22, 2021 3 min read
Filling the Research Skills Gap

Projects

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All Communities of Practice Learn Tracker Learning Glass Library 2050 Search University Tech Talks
Communities of Practice (CoP)
How do we best support knowledge sharing and team collaboration? How do we create organizations capable of learning and improving performance? Communities of Practice (COP) are groups of people who share a concern or passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.
Learn Tracker
Inspired by Edward Tanguay’s learn tracker, this is a place to record the notes of everything that I am learning from MOOC classes, to foreign languages, to useful code examples and technical how-to notes, so that I not only have an overview of what I have learned, but can search and recall these notes at any time.
Learning Glass
The Learning Glass technology is deceptively simple: LED lighting on low-iron glass creates a transparent white board. With a neon marker in hand, the presenter faces the audience while writing on the Learning Glass board.
Library 2050
Library 2050 is a project that re-imagines the University Library with the goal of starting a conversation. What we are seeing throughout higher education is a re-focusing of the library as a learning space, as opposed to a storage space - what Roberto Greco has called the Read/Write Library.
Search University
Search University is a project about search, search skills, teaching search, learning how to search, learning how to use Google effectively, and learning how to do research, from pre-university to working professionals, and everything in between.
Tech Talks
20 slides x 15 seconds per slide = 5 minutes of sharing. What would you say?

Recent & Upcoming Talks

Collection of Teaching Places to a Community of Learning Spaces
The library is the center of higher education’s transformation from a collection of teaching places to a community of learning spaces. …
Jun 3, 2017 2:00 PM — 8:00 PM Auditorium on Broadway
Libraries of the Future
Live television interview on Fox 5 New York News with Ernie Anastos discussing the future of libraries and the academic learning …
Dec 3, 2014 10:30 PM — 11:00 PM Fox 5 News
Mind Mapping: Towards Patterns for Learning
Mind mapping as a strategy for personal information management (PIM) and topic discovery with consideration given to brainstorming, …
Feb 4, 2014 3:00 AM — Feb 3, 2014 8:00 PM Long Island Library Resource Council

Recent Publications

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S. Marion, T. Williams (2021). Only a third of students enter college with research skills.

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S. Marion, S. Tanksalvala (2021). The Progressive Librarian: 10 ways to be more forward-thinking. In Thomson Reuters State of Innovation blog..

B. Beatty (2021). NYIT Office of the President | Report from the ad hoc MOOC Committee.

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