Extended essay
Changes in the Extended Essay guide
What is different in the new Extended Essay guide issued by the IB in 2025? Published guides change, yet we can become so used to a document and therefore may need to reset our thinking to the contents...
IB philosophy
IB Learner Profile and the librarian
The IB Learner Profile is a key statement of IB philosophy which pervades IB thinking and documents. The learner profile is something that should be identified and celebrated in the school library. If...
IBDP librarian
Engaging with writers and book creatives
Working with writers and other book creatives is an integral part of the role of a school librarian, but here we focus on applicability to the IB Diploma Programme. Whether it includes reading or book-related...
Teaching & learning
Approaches to Teaching & Learning (ATL)
ATL is the acronym for the IB term: Approaches to Teaching and Learning. ATL is an important feature of IB programmes in which the IB school librarian has a role. In the following pages, we look...
Extended essay
Extended essay and the librarian
What is the role of the librarian with regard to the extended essay? There are two main areas: resources and helping students with researching (which can widen to cover other information literacy or...
Teaching & learning
ATL skills categories (excepting research)
Librarian teaching & learning in the IB Diploma Programme We start with these four skills groups to provide context for the group we'll spend more time on: research skills. Thinking skills Our ‘takeaways’...
Extended essay
Extended essay coordinator & supervisors
People who support DP students in an individual school with their Extended Essay are not just important to students themselves but also to others, such as librarians, who provide ongoing student support...
IBDP library
Curating
Curating is a term that is popularly used in a digitally-connected world as well as for a specialism of school librarianship. Here, we make connections to IB use of the term and how it might inform and...
IBDP library
Layout
IB Diploma library Given that school libraries may be a room or rooms within a bigger building, a layout may be more typical to represent a library, whilst a floor plan may be used for a school campus...
Extended essay
Who and what?
The Extended Essay is a significant part of the Diploma Programme, and not just for students. Other people in a school - including the librarian - are or can be involved in supporting the Extended Essay...