Yearly Archives for 2010
A living breathing library space!
Recently I spent two marvellous months at the Brockwood Park School in Hampshire in England. My mission : To make the library a living space for staff, students and other users. So the question was: Could I do it ? The school has international students from ages 14 to 18 and has a very unusual [...]
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Guide to Setting up an Open Library
We have recently worked on a Manual for Running a Library, which you may download from here. The introduction is posted here. Introduction A school without an open and active library is like an organism with no core. S.R. Ranganathan, the founder of the library movement in India calls the school library, “Truly the heart [...]
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Outreach Programme
A brief description of me on the Pratham blog referred to me as an occasional blogger. Well! I have to do something about that. So here goes and if you are bored, so be it.
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In response to “A Library In The Mountains”
Thanks for the article. It was a coincidence that we came across it and we enjoyed reading it. It also reminded us of the time a couple of years ago. We were working at a boarding school in Dehradun. Mrs Sukumar had just taken over the primary section of the school and had introduced some [...]
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