September 2017 Events Calendar
2 Days with Bookworm: Observing LIS and MOP and Learning
Written by Neeraj N 2 Days with Bookworm: Observing LIS and MOP and Learning Stealing When I began working with children, 3 years back, I read Gijubhai Badheka’s book ‘Divaswapna’. In the book he writes about the experiments he has done in a classroom of a government school and immensely stresses on the power of […]
Bookworm Events Calendar– July 2017
Call for Contributions to Torchlight Issue 3, September 2017: Children and Libraries
Books are a way of opening the world up for children. As they grow, books allow children to find resonance of their own experiences as well as discover new ones. If readers are a community, then a library is their home, the physical space they can inhabit. For children, the library can be a way […]
A Fine Bookworm
Nicole Remedios find a nest where it’s actually Book warm! On a fine rainy day, Gayatri Borkar walked the Santismo lane in Taleigao. Splashing in little puddles along the way, she noticed a pink house named ‘Bookworm’. Now who haven’t heard of this place yet? It’s pretty obvious to have seen few books labelled Bookworm […]
Dainik Herald Article–17th June 2017
Hiring Now–Program assistants for our Community Library program
Bookworm’s community library program is hiring program assistants. Full time and part time positions are available. Graduates from in and around Panjim are preferred. Email your cv to careers@bookwormgoa.in
Press feature: For the love of reading
Bookworm in Goa is a creative space of constant and thoughtful engagement A library appears the most innocuous of spaces, and a children’s library doubly so. But Sujata Noronha, the director of Goa’s Bookworm Trust, knows differently. “Literacy is about reading the world, and not just the word,” she paraphrases Paulo Freire, the Brazilian educator, […]
Bookworm Events Calendar–June 2017
Library Report Card for Libraries in Schools
This is first part of the Data Science blog posts which are coming up over the next few months Over the course of the last few years of running the Libraries in Schools program, one thing we have been constantly doing is to improve and incorporate innovations using technology to manage our school data. In […]