The Magic Weavers of Bookworm
Written by Prerna Agarwal, LEC 2020 ‘Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life’s greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.’ This quote by Taylor Caldwell overlooked my senior school corridor and always made me wonder, ‘How can that be?’ For my […]
Library Educators Unite Online
Written by Dwithiya Raghavan, LEC 2020 How do you move a course that has so far run in the wonderous haven for readers that is the Bookworm library in Goa into tiny Zoom windows without losing its soul? Ask the Bookworm team and they will tell you how! Thanks to the pandemic, they were pushed […]
What do you Miss?
Written by the Library team The last few months have seen an upheaval and settling down of the library. Like the calm after the storm, it is still and quiet, unearthly in its silence. While libraries have always traditionally been associated with these very qualities, Bookworm has been the opposite. With a monthly calendar of […]
One Month at Bookworm
Written by Divya Ribeiro Not many people are lucky to have a close relationship with their local libraries, as I have had with Bookworm. I was first introduced to the Bookworm Library when I was young. Every day after school, my parents would drop me off at the library where I would spend a good […]
A place that fosters Growth and Learning
Written by Nayan Mehrotra You dream of a place and a company of people, and then, if they become part of your life, how would you feel? It’s been just a month since I joined but I feel I have been part of Bookworm since a long period of time. Looking back, I am trying […]
Non Fiction and Read Aloud
Written by Bookworm Team Read Alouds as a mode of bringing students closer to texts, enhancing the story experience, strengthening comprehension, and benefitting reading achievements are established by bodies of research (Burns et al., 1998). Read Alouds enable students to listen to text voiced that may be beyond their immediate decoding level and their understanding […]
Library football match
Written by Stephie Madurai and Pranita Naik The children came running happily to tell us that there will be a match in Cacra. What had come to pass was that we were expecting a group of Tibetan librarians at Bookworm for a Library Retreat and in conversation with the children, Sujata learnt that the children […]
Wall Art at our Chimbel Community library
By Shifa Bi Khan A task much thought of at our Chimbel community library was to make the front sit-out more inviting. What could be done to bring children in? What would scream out loud that it is their library? A discussion with the MOP (Mobile Outreach Programme) team and many ideas in mind, we […]
Visitors to our Community Library at Cacra
By Stephie Madurai and Anandita Rao Towards the end of November, we had participants from different parts of the country, visit Bookworm for a week long Library workshop. The Wipro Library workshop brings together participants from different organisations, associated with the Wipro Foundation and interested in library and the possibilities it holds. As part of […]
A Journey to Remember
Written by Nayan Mehrotra, LEC 2019 The journey of experiencing the library educators course was enriching and exciting on many levels. Before doing the course, I had a small open library which I was running out of my passion for library work. I did not know much of the practices and approaches which I got […]