LEC: A window to New Possibilities
Written by Tsering Dolma, LEC 2021 I enrolled in the LEC several months after I joined my current job at Manjushri Educational Services and its children’s library. Manjushri Educational Services, based in Dharamshala was formed in 2015 by individuals who are strong advocates for the importance of emphasis on Early Childhood Care and Education in […]
Defining Rigour
Written by Radha Gopalan, Mentor, LEC 2021 ‘Rigour’ is a culture. This was reinforced for me in many many ways as I deep dived into LEC 2022 officially in the role of a mentor but also other wonderful parts including ‘breather’. The only way to truly experience a culture is to immerse oneself in it […]
CLASSROOM TEACHER TO LIBRARY EDUCATOR
Written by Poornima Natarajan, LEC 2021 As a Pre-Primary teacher, I thought my duties were preparing a fun curriculum that combines learning and playing for the children and stories were told to younger children as a part of a daily routine. I thought the classroom Library is a part of learning centres for kids. My […]
Bookworms Beyond Borders (BBB), Issue 5, A Booster dose to increase our Reading Quotient!
Written by Rashmi Kumbar, Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Central University of Gujarat The disheartening and dampening mode of online teaching disappeared for a few magical moments when the Maruti courier guy handed the brown envelope containing the precious BBB 5! with the excitement and joy of an 8-year-old receiving an envelope […]
LEC, A New Perspective
Written by Rajarama M S, LEC 2021 The LEC course is intended for teachers, school librarians, development sector professionals, literacy educators and anyone interested in library work. My journey with LEC started on 4th October 2021. As a library educator, I learnt a lot from the LEC course. It was a great experience and I […]
My journey of evolving as a Library Educator
Written by Geetanjali Mehra, LEC 2021 A Library Educator, a word which seems to be so complete in itself. A word that brings together the responsibilities and knowledge of both, a librarian and an educator. Hence, the person plays an important and critical role in opening the collection, engaging children, and making them feel safe […]
My Learnings as a Tibetan Librarian
Written by Lobsang Sangmo Despite being in exile for 62 years, the Tibetan community in India is fortunate to have good Tibetan schools with all the facilities which also include a Library. Ever since my childhood I have known the library as a place where we can borrow and return books. It’s been one and […]
Chapter One
Written by Pooja Sagar, LEC 2021 It all started when… One morning, a colleague forwarded the ‘Bookworm’ Library Educator’s Certificate (LEC) course prospectus to our school’s library WhatsApp group. The prospectus was ‘magical’! It gave me such a profound sense of the kind of program that I could expect from Bookworm, that I was just […]
Playing by the Book
Written by Joeanna Rebello Fernandes, LEC 2021 I’d imagined a quiet week. The LEC was a course on library education, and the libraries I’d known were silent as churches (with the occasional sermon thrown in). The first in-person contact would be low-decibel too, I thought—high-impact, but muted. There was serious pedagogy to be discussed—reviews of […]
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. […]