He has worked for the National Library of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, University of California Davis, and Samuel Merritt University. Marcus has been a reference and instruction librarian, department manager, and library director. Throughout his professional career he was also a writer, and eventually decided to become a writer full-time. His web site (https://marcusabanks.com/) has clips to some of his work. Of particular interest for this webinar, Marcus recently published the piece “Fighting Fake News” in American Libraries magazine (available at https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2016/12/27/fighting-fake-news/).