The Department of Education, CTA has organized Dehradun cluster level Intervention Workshop for school librarians which was started on March 27, 2015 at S.T.S Paonta Sahib. In the four-day workshop which will conclude on March 30, the Librarians will directly engage with the tasks to have hands- on experience and will broadly cover interactive sessions on library activities, book audit and homework reading, planning the library layout, organizing and labeling, data management of a library and discussions and planning for the way forward.

 

In this workshop, 13 participants from 11 schools are attending. The schools were from Central Tibetam Administration (CTSA), Sambhota Schools Administration (STSS), Tibetan Children’s Village (TCV), Tibetan Homes Foundation (THF) and TNMF Clementown.
Last year, various activities were planned starting with a visit to the World Book Fair event (Feb. 17-18, 2014) and the first workshop in April 2014. Field Visits to school libraries were made by Usha Mukunda in October 2013, Sujata Noronha in October 2014 and Yashodara Kundaji & Karuna Jaithirtha in Oct/Nov 2014 and submitted their recommendations which will greatly help the school administrations and librarians to improve the school libraries and reading culture. Besides, quite a number of story books have been provided to schools at the end of the last workshop.

With guidance from the experts, the Online Google group was created last year to share the learning experiences among the librarians and thereby help students improve their reading skills. This will be further strengthened through online mentoring coordinators with constant guidance from Usha Mukunda & Sujata Noronha for an interactive distant mode mentoring school librarians all through the year.

Dr. Sujata Noronha is the main resource person for this workshop. She is being assisted by Mr. Tenzin Lhawang, Senior Librarians, Upper TCV School, Dharamsala.
The workshop is being funded by the USAID through The Tibet Fund under the Early Grade Reading Project.

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