This article aims to reflect upon a possible path for the relatively fast growing medium of children’s literature in the subcontinent with a very particular focus on inclusion. In the expansion in volume of producing children’s literature in the past two and a half decades ( 2000 – 2025) , ‘both production and consumption of…
What is the difference between an adults’ library and a children’s library? I may ask and you are very likely to respond by saying, the children! As library practitioners who make a conscious choice to work with children, we need to examine more carefully what we mean when we say children, because we may all…
We inhabit a complicated world. There is likely to be very little argument with this statement. So, it is not surprising or startling to recognize that the library space as a place is unlikely to be free of complications. Yet the word library continues to play out in images and contexts – probably sepia toned,…
A couple of years ago, a participant on the Library Educators Course was keen to explore the theme of caste for a focussed field project activity. In discussing the why and why not and the how and when with her and co-mentor Usha Mukunda, I was left with the growing realization that our exploration of…
A library is for everyone. But as able-bodied human beings we often think of everyone to mean more like us. And yet we know that society, our communities, consist of people who are different in many ways and if a library is really for everyone, how do we practice that including and designing for all….
All around us, we hear practitioners seeking ideas for a rapid transfer to online modes. We sense that the library and practices with children, like other educational institutions with the same age group, feel that they have to rapidly transition to online and digital formats, adopting remote modes of teaching and learning since this is…