My Learnings as a Tibetan Librarian
Written by Lobsang Sangmo Despite being in exile for 62 years, the Tibetan community in India is fortunate to have good Tibetan schools with all the facilities which also include a Library. Ever since my childhood I have known the library as a place where we can borrow and return books. It’s been one and […]
Chapter One
Written by Pooja Sagar, LEC 2021 It all started when… One morning, a colleague forwarded the ‘Bookworm’ Library Educator’s Certificate (LEC) course prospectus to our school’s library WhatsApp group. The prospectus was ‘magical’! It gave me such a profound sense of the kind of program that I could expect from Bookworm, that I was just […]
Playing by the Book
Written by Joeanna Rebello Fernandes, LEC 2021 I’d imagined a quiet week. The LEC was a course on library education, and the libraries I’d known were silent as churches (with the occasional sermon thrown in). The first in-person contact would be low-decibel too, I thought—high-impact, but muted. There was serious pedagogy to be discussed—reviews of […]
Exploring Worlds through Words
Written by Maitreyi A, LEC 2021 Waiting an extra five months for our first LEC (Library Educator’s Certificate Course) contact period was totally worth it! Our seven-month course was meant to start in May 2021, but due to the Covid pandemic, our start date was postponed. I was getting ready and set to travel to […]
What kind of a teacher do I want to be?
Written by Jennifer Thomas, Sharon English High school Despite being a teacher for the last ten years I continue to be plagued by this question at different points in my professional life. I work with school students and with adults but I am not sure what kind of a teacher my students perceive me to […]
Puu – A Critical Book Review
Written by the Bookworm Team Title: Puu Author: CG Salamandar Illustrator: Samidha Gunjal Publisher: Scholastic The book narrates the story of a girl, who is part of a community of manual scavengers, and her experience and interaction with the other children in the school she attends. Through a heroic act of rescuing a puppy […]
LEC- Joyful Learning!
Written by R. Devabalan, LEC 2020 Having spent almost a quarter-century in development work, I had the privilege of participating in training, workshops, and multiple learning courses but the Library Educators Course organized by Bookworm Trust is unique. What makes LEC unique, are three things: the facilitators, the curriculum, and the mentoring support. The facilitators […]
My Library Dream
Written by Bhavna Faizullabhoy, LEC 2020 I still cannot believe that it has been a week since I returned from Goa, having completed a course in Library Education from Bookworm Trust Goa. Reading and books have always been an integral part of my existence and have shaped who I am. Sometime in 2019, I had […]
Learning from Stories and Stories of Learning
By Poonam Bhonsle, LEC 2020 I thrive on stories. As much as I love listening to stories I equally enjoy narrating them to others. This year the pandemic exposed me to different kinds of stories – of despair, of suffering, of anxiety and of grief. Amidst all this, I was worried whether I will be […]
A Welcome Change
Written by Blaise D’sa Two months ago Bookworm revamped the library space at the Alban Couto Community Library in the hope of reorganising and refreshing the library collection. What catches the eye as you enter is a visually attractive space which houses three book shelves replete with diverse books. To the right of the room […]