John Royce

John has worked in Zambia, England, Malawi, Germany, and Turkey. He is now working as a freelance consultant and trainer. He started out as a teacher, but, required to take over the library in his school,  found it so rewarding that he changed the direction of his career. He describes school librarianship as teaching without a timetable commitment. John qualified as a librarian some 30 years ago, and later obtained a Masters degree in Library and Information Science. He has 16 years experience in IB schools. He is an IB authorised workshop leader, and has both developed and led workshops in Extended Essay, Academic Honesty, Academic Writing, and for librarians at DP and MYP levels. He also leads cross-programme library and librarian workshops, online and face-to-face. John has three times been chair of the ECIS Librarians’ Committee, has been a Regional Director on the IASL board, has served on other library committees, and has had papers and articles published in the professional press. A guide to good practice in documenting sources, Credit where it’s due: the school library preventing plagiarism, was published by the School Library Association in Spring 2011. His interest in academic honesty stems from an attempt to update his school’s Short Guide to Bibliographic Citation. That, combined with an interest in Internet search engines, led to experience in plagiarism detection, which rapidly became an interest in plagiarism prevention, then to academic honesty and integrity in all its contexts. That all-round experience proved invaluable in January 2010, when he was recruited to put together from scratch a three-day workshop on generic Extended Essay. The appointed workshop leader had dropped out less than 72 hours before the workshop was due to start, and had no workshop materials to pass on!  John believes he works well under pressure, and this surely proves the point. In November 2011, John won the IASL School Librarianship Award. This award is the premier recognition of services to school libraries internationally. You can find out more about John on his website, http://read2live.com/