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 […]
Fiction in Non-fiction
By a random chance, I found myself reading two very interesting books at the same time, last week. I have never been able to read two books at the same time, for leisure. I don’t know why I felt it necessary to read both at the same time, but once I had started them, there […]
My New Bookworm Chapter
Libraries are said to be a storehouse of energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve. I feel privileged to be a part of such an explorative world. As a student, I was not a bookworm but liked reading. And the challenge that appeared […]
Jumble 2018
The concept of the Jumble Sale was new to me till I joined Bookworm. The idea that we could ask people to donate their junk, their discards, and that we could sell it to raise funds was very novel for me. In 2014, when I joined Bookworm, I was overwhelmed by all the work that […]
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 […]
Our new venture in Borim
It was one wonderful rainy day in June when Sujata and I had set off on a picturesque drive to Borim, a quaint place with greenery everywhere. We had gone to visit Swami Vivekananda Prasarak Mandal School. We were to start our LiS program in this school and we wanted to see the place to […]
My first few weeks
“Bookworm library” – the first time that I laid eyes upon that name was many, many years ago, when I was quickly browsing through one of the newspapers where sat this article about this new library. It had grabbed my attention instantaneously, as the picture accompanying the article was of a group of people, sitting […]
Growing at Bookworm
The day I read the advertisement about a vacancy in Bookworm, I somehow felt that it would be a great place for me to work in. I spoke to a few of my friends who knew about the organisation and they all gave positive feedback. My first contact with the Bookworm team was on 15th […]
Advancing development of library practitioners
NT KURIOCITY The ‘Parag’ initiative of Tata Trusts and Goa-based Bookworm Trust recently announced the successful conclusion of a first-of-its-kind Library Educator’s Course (LEC) for professional development of library practitioners. The event was presided over by Minister for Art and Culture Govind Gawde. A professional development course, the LEC has been developed by Tata Trusts, […]
My Initial Experiences at Bookworm
For two years I passed by this unassuming red building named Bookworm. I never thought of entering, thinking that it was only a children’s library (my loss). My journey at Bookworm started when a friend, Krystle, who works with them told me about the work they did and asked whether I would be interested in […]