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*Bookworm Trust* *2025* Hello, As we enter 2026, it feels good to pause for a moment and say thank you. Thank you for everything you have done in 2025 to support libraries and help Bookworm strengthen its vision, β*To inspire and develop a love for reading as a way of life, and nurturing humane engagement, in everyone.*β Our network of library educators and library advocates is slowly gathering strength and momentum because of committed professionals and supporters like you. You help create safe spaces, enable access to precious resources and are present to listen and talk to whoever walks into your library. Thank you for showing up and practicing empathy and inclusion everyday, even as this becomes scant in the world that we live in today. Our mission relies on a network - which means it relies on you. At Bookworm, our Theory of Change begins with the Educator in the library. This year youβve helped bring that to life in powerful ways. Here are a few impact highlights we feel genuinely proud of and you are a part of this journey! - *1700 Library Educators* reached and impacted this year through workshops, trainings and courses - *30,000+ children* reached via the professional development programs we curated and led in 2025 - *200 + sessions of Library Professional Development* completed in all across programs and teams - *Our collective of Library Educators* is growing and we now are a 100+ strong community of Library Educators on Facebook as part of the Bookworm Alums Group (write to us at *[email protected] <[email protected]>* for more information) This data is a vital indicator of something deeper - there is a genuine need for library services across India and because of your faith and trust in Bookworm, we are able to continue to forge ahead and keep widening our library community. After 20 years of bold and responsive on ground work with children and adults, we remain vitalised and excited for everything ahead. We could not do any of it without you. We would like to offer a special note of gratitude to our funders and institutional partners: *Wipro Foundation*, *H T Parekh Foundation*, and *Takshila Education Society*. Their belief in libraries and long-term capacity building has enabled library work to reach different geographies. 2025 saw a mix of the Old and New constituting Bookwormβs Professional Development (ProD) program bouquet for the year *Filling the Gap:* Sujata Noronha led participants who were brave and open to interrogate privilege to understand the continuing repercussions of Caste in Indian society. Carefully designed modules have slowly moved participants towards becoming confident to take a radical path in the library. *Library Mentoring Support : *In its third year, the Library Mentoring Support(LMS) envisioned and enabled through the H T Parekh Grant is strengthening the work of 20 library based organisations across different geographies in India. Childrenβs libraries are becoming vibrant and accessible because of educators who are part of the LMS. *Library and Foundational Literacy: *Our most recent offering - this course opened up an academic discourse on Foundational Literacy and the role that the library can play in ensuring meaningful experiences for children. *Introduction to Libraries: *This year was our 8th offering of the Introduction to Libraries workshop offered in collaboration with Wipro Foundation. The workshop brought together 22 participants from 13 organisations for an immersive learning experience. Through a blend of theory, practice, exposure visits, and reflective engagements, participants explored the vision, elements, and possibilities of childrenβs libraries. *Bookworm Alums Program:* We were happy to introduce a new service that aims to strengthen the library practice of our Alumni who work/manage/run libraries across India. The opening cohort had three community librarians and one independent librarian. *School Library Strengthening:* In our fourth year of partnership with the Takshila Education Societyβs Delhi Public School network we continue to mentor and train school librarians across four locations (Ludhiana, Patna, Pune,Coimbatore) so that the school library becomes a vibrant nerve centre. We are delighted that this work indirectly allows us to impact the reading lives of 7000 + children. *Libraries: Purpose & Practice 2025 (NEET, Guwahati): *The Libraries: Purpose and Practice workshop, held in collaboration with the North East Education Trust from 23β26 June 2025, brought together 22 participants from seven organisations to explore foundational ideas in library work. The workshop combined theory with hands-on experiences around library practice. *Libraries: Purpose & Practice 2025 (Parivartan, Bihar): *The third edition of this workshop put us in touch with committed and spirited educators who wish to renew and reimagine the library as a place for discovery, dialogue and deepening. 28 participants from different geographies spent five days immersed in understanding the potential of and need of libraries. *Skills Training workshops: *Two workshops in February and May 2025 opened out the opportunity to learn skills that are essential to the working of the Library and support the process of children discovering the joy of reading. *Book Clubs and Reading Circles:* Thanks to our committed readerly colleagues, Sujata and Niju, weβve had the honour of hosting three distinct Book Clubs / Reading Circles for anyone interested in reading. Functioning as virtual communities, weβve read almost a dozen texts via *The Last Saturday Book Club*, *The Bookworm Panel* and the Come Read With Us - *Non Fiction Reading Circle*. If you would like to join any of these book clubs please write to us at [email protected] Hereβs what you can look forward to in 2026 *Register here* <https://bookwormgoa.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3e24e8250913f33ffabd5d536&id=550bbdc97e&e=08ec90938f> Register here <https://bookwormgoa.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3e24e8250913f33ffabd5d536&id=3807a76504&e=08ec90938f> Register here <https://bookwormgoa.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3e24e8250913f33ffabd5d536&id=334d2e4cc7&e=08ec90938f> Register here <https://bookwormgoa.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3e24e8250913f33ffabd5d536&id=199a303b7d&e=08ec90938f> Register here <https://bookwormgoa.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3e24e8250913f33ffabd5d536&id=14fb639df9&e=08ec90938f> Register here <https://bookwormgoa.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3e24e8250913f33ffabd5d536&id=0a3197be23&e=08ec90938f> Register here <https://bookwormgoa.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3e24e8250913f33ffabd5d536&id=647cec475f&e=08ec90938f> Register here <https://bookwormgoa.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3e24e8250913f33ffabd5d536&id=573d0bbd04&e=08ec90938f> Before we sign off, we leave you with two peer reviewed publications authored by our Founder-Director Sujata Noronha <[email protected]> that shine light in a timely way on why libraries are essential for the complex world that we live in - Learnings from the library: childrenβs affective responses to literature <https://bookwormgoa.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3e24e8250913f33ffabd5d536&id=c0f10b9462&e=08ec90938f> (Samuhik Pahal, 2025) - Participatory River Drawings and Political Capabilities through Library Practice <https://bookwormgoa.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3e24e8250913f33ffabd5d536&id=e5639b5cfb&e=08ec90938f> (From *The River Mhadei: Science and Politics of Diversion*, 2025) We will be in your inbox later in 2026 with new and exciting publications fresh off the Bookworm Press. 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