CELEBRATING ANOTHER DIFFERENT TALES BOOK
November, 2024 “Can you come to a Consultation on the Different Tales books ?” Within 48 hours I had rearranged two other meetings , a presentation, domestic arrangements, and found myself enroute to Hyderabad at the appointed hour – giddily poring over photos and notes from various note books , conversations with […]
Another Encounter With Children
What is new you may ask about yet another encounter with children ? And you are perfectly correct in making this enquiry because haven’t I written and spoken enough about this ? Somehow it seems not. Somehow I am unable to shed the vestiges of the possibility that children impose upon my being when I […]
Bookworm & Prayog – Inter – Beings
Prayog is a library organisation in Gopalganj Dt of Bihar and is lead by our LEC alumni Surya Prakash Rai. We met Surya as a Wipro Foundation Fellow in 2018 when, he rather reluctantly ( his words!) agreed to participate in an Introduction to Library workshop , Bookworm hosts with Wipro Foundation support every year. […]
Read Programme 2021-22 | 2nd Parental Webinar (Nur-II)
We welcome prior questions and concerns from parents over email to sujata@bookwormgoa.in for an interactive and meaningful Q&A session
LiS Program a responsive entity of Bookworm
Bookworm’s Libraries in School Program birthed in 2011 fondly referred to now as v1.0 and in the decade past has enabled a pop – up library experience in many schools, in and around Panjim, Goa. The selection of schools in the past decade was organic in some ways and strategic in others. We were initially […]
Being Flexible as Library Educators
All around us, we are hearing of practitioners seeking ideas for a rapid transfer to online modes. We sense that the library and practices with children, like other educational institutions with the same age group, feel that they have to rapidly transition to online and digital formats, adopting remote modes of teaching and learning since […]
Mosaic of Hope
Almost twelve years ago when we began to reach out to communities on the margins, our intention was simply about scaffolding. Children on the margins of social, economic, health, literacy, identity, language, caste, ethnicity , development and perhaps more indicators are compromised for fuller life experiences. We imagined some story joy, some book joy will […]
Reading Portal
Library spaces , including children’s corners in libraries inherited a desirable atmosphere of silence from time past. This imagination stemmed from a theory around learning that believed that mental attention was only possible when all external sounds ceased as distractors. It was also reinforced by the scholarly atmosphere that academic libraries generated when an aura […]
THE CHILDREN. THE LIBRARY
The generator would come on and drown out any conversation that was going on. Yuvraj noticed me grimace and began to countdown and lo and behold when he got to 8, the generator stopped. I looked at him and indicated he had magic. Every time during this library session which is a part of the […]
Alban Couto Community Library children come visiting
In every room at the library , the air was ruffled – there were children and they had come back ! Six readers from our Alban Couto Community Library ( ACCL) with Wendy our own library educator, and parent Akshi came to Bookworm library. It was a joy to have children as young as three […]