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 […]
Exploring Worlds through Words
Written by Maitreyi A, LEC 2021 Waiting an extra five months for our first LEC (Library Educator’s Certificate Course) contact period was totally worth it! Our seven-month course was meant to start in May 2021, but due to the Covid pandemic, our start date was postponed. I was getting ready and set to travel to […]
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. […]
Bookworm Trust Annual Report – 2020-21
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Teachers Day Celebration at Government Middle School, Pernem
This morning Pranita, Tanvi and myself celebrated Teachers Day at the Government Middle School, Hasapur, Pernem. It was the first time we would be visiting the school and we were excited as we began preparing for our plan at the school. We arrived at the school and Teacher Rajani was waiting for us as we […]
Bookworms Beyond Borders – First Issue
Download e-edition of the first issue of Bookworms Beyond Borders now! Bookworm with support from Wipro Foundation has initiated a quarterly physical newsletter, for cross circulation amongst library people/practitioners in the country. The newsletter is called ‘Bookworms Beyond Borders’ and is bi-lingual (English and Hindi). We are delighted to share an e-copy of the first issue of the newsletter on the […]
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 […]
What kind of a teacher do I want to be?
Written by Jennifer Thomas, Sharon English High school Despite being a teacher for the last ten years I continue to be plagued by this question at different points in my professional life. I work with school students and with adults but I am not sure what kind of a teacher my students perceive me to […]