An Interview with Sakshi Sunil Mayenkar
Q: When did you join Bookworm and in what role? SSM: I joined BW on the 31st of August 2015 as a library assistant supporting the LiS program. Q: Did you have any expectations when you joined and how have they changed? SSM : I wondered if I would be able to work because […]
Memoirs in the Library
This year I have the joy of teaching a small group of young adults at the library. A group of five middle schoolers who are on the threshold of being swept into the undercurrent of literature and life. Being a group in an open program with an open educator, we have the freedom to choose […]
On the sidelines
We have been tweeting, texting, facebooking, instagram-ing about a new premise in Chimbel for our community library. We are excited. From a small room in a long strip of rooms, we now have a small house, with a porch, three rooms, a Champa tree out in the front and the possibility of so much more. […]
The End
As I begin to look back at 2017 , the Bookworm story is onto another chapter, the story line appears pretty linear from the outside. So this reflection could be straightforward. We have much happiness to report. A growing tribe of readers with an additional LiS school this year. A new house in Chimbel for […]
The Story of a Panther
Mickey Patel’s Rupa the Elephant is well known to educators who work with books, but I suspect The Story of a Panther is not. This very fine book published posthumously by Ravi Dayal and disturbed by Orient Longman includes the remarkable illustrative style of Mickey Patel, but for me more powerful is the ethical dilemma […]
Spirals
The sign saying ” Wanted Library Assistant ” is up on the wall of our new library premises at Indira Nagar Chimbel. Every lane and every new location is almost like a bee hive transfer but with hosts of new bees coming in to nest. The room was alive when I walked in. Boys in […]
Presence and Absence
This we Have Now by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi This we have now is not imagination. This is not grief or joy. Not a judging state, or an elation, or sadness. Those come and go. This is the presence that doesn’t. My presence has been to be absent from Bookworm for the past month and as […]
Library Educator’s Course English 2017 – Closing Ceremony
Play and Performance have been significant parts of the Library Educator’s Course. The graduating batch of LEC 2017, English under the direction of Alia Sinha put up a closing performance of the LEC Course for the closing ceremony. The remarkable aspect of this performance is that it was co constructed and imagined by each and […]
Lap Time Baby Time
On the Saturday morning pre – school sessions at Bookworm, I am known to work from home or creep up the stairs to avoid engagement. Deepali who holds this session does it remarkably well and I considered myself done with little ones. For years – as far back as I can I have worked with […]
Questions and Answers
So, Bookworm continues to reside in popular memory as a children’s library. A hole – in – the – wall that has some books for lending. No questions asked here. As awareness increases and one begins to understand the scale of our outreach work and the number of children who get a systematic, creative library […]