LiS is the way our school year ended
Today, we have nearly completed our feedback on 6 of the 7 schools we work with, on the Libraries in Schools Program. We have had meetings scheduled with each school staff and principal and shared our, our struggles and the way forward for LiS to keep going to schools. As I reflect on these meetings, […]
Brown girl dreaming
I believe that to focus on larger issues, we must sometimes narrow our frame to the specific. I respond very strongly to books that do not characterise the ‘major’, preferring to dwell on the minor. So a title like brown girl dreaming Jacqueline Woodson, would draw me almost immediately. That it is a memoir in […]
Do You Read ?
While I stare longingly at a row of possible purchases in a book shop, knowing I have the means to buy a book but confused about which good to repose those means towards.. a work colleague asks me , “Do you really read all the books you buy ?” I was astounded both by the […]
India Public Libraries Conference 2015
The Princely State of Kolhapur passed a Public Library Act in 1945. Tamil Nadu as part of the Indian Union, passed the Indian Public Library Act in 1948, my own state of Goa, in 1993 and last week in Delhi, we gathered for the FIRST Indian Public Library Conference. We are inching our way into […]
New Books!
I am in Delhi for the India Public Libraries Conference (IPLC 2015 – India’s FIRST public Library conference) and Bookworm were in the honourable list of libraries with good practices, and on the side I went book shopping. A must stop book shop for me, an out of towner- afraid of the big city is […]
Igniting Read Alouds
I have been waiting, knowing it was imminent in the climate of Bookworm’s space that our firecracker Barkha Sharda would ignite and shower us with light ! Today, Bookworm celebrated World Read Aloud Day in the Panjim Garden and Barkha took this on as a project to lead and she set the park on fire! […]
Book Stop – Panaji – the open library launched
An Open Free library rolled into the Panjim garden, Garcia d’Orta yesterday evening at 8. 00 pm. Book Stop, a collaborative initiative of many is part of the larger vision for Panjim the Open Library. Beautifully and thoughtfully designed shelves by designers at Shirk Shop made Book Stop a reality. Book Stop were originally conceptualised […]
Raising A Community of Readers
Bookworm through the Alban Couto Library Program‘s support in Aldona supports 612 school students in Aldona between Stds 1 – 5 in 4 schools. Students are immersed in the practice of a library program on a weekly basis, continue to await the sessions with great anticipation and are demonstrating shifts in their language comprehension and […]
Connecting Classrooms…
Being an ELTReP ( English Language Teaching Research Partnership) Awardee from the British Council for 2013 – 14, enabled me to be invited to a very well organised conference in Delhi titled Connecting Classrooms early this month. I found myself in a room full of teacher educators all interested and working closely with language teaching […]
These are a few of our chosen books !
favourite books from Bookworm team’s 2014 LIST. Analia Braganza The Three Kittens – V Suteyev Analiza Rodrigues King Bidgood in the Bathtub – Audrey Wood, Don Wood Barkha Sharda Following my Paintbrush – Gita Wolf, Dulari Devi Deepali Correya Library Lion – Michelle Knudsen, Kevin Hawkes Flavia Lobo The Swan’s Gift […]