Bookworm Trust

Professional Development in the Library

Most adults who come to a Professional Development offering on Libraries at Bookworm, carry with them a notion about libraries. We all do. These notions simply stated include the idea of a space, books, an exchange of books and animation. After experiencing the possibilities of library work through a capacity building offering, responses read like […]

Bookworm Trust Annual Report 2023

At Bookworm, we know that when you know better, you do better – but we also know that not everyone in this diverse economy has equal opportunity to know. This year we celebrate the ways in which we have come to know more children and their families through our mobile library programs in schools and […]

Wah! Goa / Bookworm Go, Get ‘Book’ed

Bookworm is a creative space to impart food for the heart and soul, widen horizons, and empower one with the need to comprehend the written word Sujata Noronha founded Bookworm, a library based organisation, as a response in the early 2000s to a growing literacy crisis and the absence of a socio-cultural lifestyle around story […]

A Summer Guided Reading Program

  “One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.” ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief   Toward the end of April, with all our minds geared toward the first contact of the LEC course, the 2nd wave descended and we retreated again from contact. In the week that followed, we re-immersed into the […]

LEC with Bookworm

My first year with the Library Educator Course (LEC) was an experience that threw open different doors and windows in my mind, and left me floating in the ideas that emerged. LEC is a seven month professional development course offered by Bookworm that consumes and excites. I stood on the fringes and let everything wash […]

Bookworm’s list of books on Inclusion

SL. NO TITLE AUTHOR ILLUSTRATOR 1 Zoom Robert Munsch Michael Martchenko 2 Ty’s One Man band Mildred Pitt Walter Margot Tomes 3 Thukpa for All Praba Ram & Sheela Preuitt Shilpa Ranade 4 King for a Day Rukhsana Khan Christiane Kromer 5 Dream Writer Sandhya Rao Tanvi Bhat 6 Ten Shefalee Jain 7 I Didn’t […]

The Library: Constants and Changes

The library at Bookworm has open doors, open shelves, open programming, and rests on a concept of open access and collaborative ownership. The openness which has sometimes resulted in missing books, disappearing amounts from the cash box, and other mysterious happenings, has never been challenged with any other model. This strongly held value has permeated […]