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The Library Team Reminisces… Looking Back at 2023

Written by the Library Team, Bookworm The library team at Bookworm is a small team who ensure that our libraries at Mala, Aldona and Saligao remain vibrant, accessible and engaging spaces. In this blog we look back at the calendar year 2023, traversing two fiscal and academic years. Captured here are voices of different team […]

BOOKWORM: A Library Redefined

Written by Shaina DCosta Did Suppandi ever get his dream job? And why was Eeyore always melancholic?  We never found these answers.  And that is what children’s literature does to you. It spellbinds that part of you, making your childhood the most Odyssean era of your life. A much-loved genre that still slithers through time […]

Connecting with The Owl House at the Library

By Harrison Amaral “You never really understand a person until You consider their point of view” ~Harper Lee On the 1st of September we had the Owl House Visit; they are a community service initiative that provides skill support to individuals and families with neurological differences. It was a warm evening, the sun was cheerful […]

Learning to Embody Stories – An LEC Journey

Written by Nayanika P, LEC 2022 When I first joined LEC, I had some experience of working with children as a storyteller. I was often at loggerheads with the role, knowing there were parts of it I enjoyed and parts of it, like the performance bit, that I was deeply anxious about. The sessions I […]

Becoming a Library Insider

Written by Ricardo Peres-da-Silva, Bookworm Intern I entered Bookworm Library on May 3, 2023, the first month of my two month Bookworm internship, as a complete outsider from library spaces. I really like to read books and work with children, but that’s about it. I didn’t know how to lead a session, or what a […]

Internal Professional Development: Experiences of the Bookworm Team

Compiled by Priya and Geeta As a part of professional development for the team, Sujata asked us what are some topics that we would like to know more about. We wrote up a list of topics which we wanted to understand in more detail. The training included six sessions scheduled across the month of May. […]

Fireworks in the Brain…

Written by Dharmaraju Kakani, LEC 2022 A while back if you were to ask me, about my thoughts on library, I might have made a combination of these statements: A place for books, where readers can access them Experts who run libraries know best what to stock in a library The act of discovery (and […]

Visual Arts in Pause Library – a Mental Health Based Community Library

Written by Pause Library (Pause for Perspective) team members Anuradha, Eera, Sahithi, Sammy, Shravani, and Vasavi Our team, the Pause Library Team at Pause for Perspective, joined Bookworm’s workshop in Visual Arts Practices in the Library as we felt it might offer a valuable deepening into our work. Mindfulness, bibliotherapy, and expressive arts therapy are […]

May 2023 at Bookworm

Written by Ela Rachel Roy, Bookworm Intern My journey with Bookworm first began in 2013 when my sister and I used to visit the Library in Taleigao, often to borrow books and spend our afternoons there. Another connection we had with Bookworm was their annual Jumble Sale, where we would sometimes volunteer too. A major […]