Bruce Royan
(to serve until 31 December 2008)
Email: Bruce.Royan@cilip.org.uk
Biography
Bruce Royan has worked in Public, Academic, National, and Government Libraries and is now a Principal Consultant at Concurrent Computing Ltd, whose clients have included Cumbria Libraries, the British Council, Tate Galleries, the Department of Health and the BBC.
He has served as University Librarian and Director of Information Services at the University of Stirling, and Interim Director of Knowledge and Information at Robert Gordon University.
His earlier career in Librarianship and Information Technology has included British Telecom, the London Borough of Camden, The British Library, the National Library of Scotland, the Department of Trade and Industry, and as founding Director of the Singapore Library Network (SILAS).
Outside Singapore, he may be best known for founding SCRAN, a networked multimedia learning resource base of millions of objects, digitised from libraries, museums, archives and the built heritage, and licensed for educational use.
Bruce has provided library networking consultancy to clients in Japan, Hungary, the Czech Republic and the Philippines, and has lectured on library management issues in 40 countries across 6 continents.
He has served on the boards of several educational charities, as well as the Councils of the Library Association of Singapore, the Institute of Information Scientists, and the Library Association. He was Chair of the LA IT Group for several years, facilitating its evolution into MMIT.
An Honorary Fellow of CILIP, Bruce is Secretary of the Management and Technology Section of IFLA, IFLA representative on the Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations and Visiting Professor in the School of Creative Industries, Napier University.
Read Bruce Royan's 2008 Candidate Election Manifesto.
Updated: 12 February 2008