Awards to promote,
revivify school libraries
The Bandana Sen Library Awards will be given to librarians and heads from schools across the country for excellence in best practices in nurturing learning environments.
A new award
aims to motivate and promote the library as a space for nurturing young
students’ imagination and critical thinking abilities and develop a
collaborative spirit and innovation.
The Bandana
Sen Library Awards will be given to librarians and heads from schools across
the country for excellence in best practices in nurturing learning
environments.
Constituted
by One Up Library, Book studio and Learning Lab in the memory of Bandana Sen,
who was a leading figure in the field of children’s libraries and reading
programs in India, the awards envision the ‘library’ at the heart of school
communities.
Entries for
the awards start from July 15 and close by September 15.
The force
behind the initiative is Dalbir Kaur Madan, who also runs OneUp: Library, Book
studio and Learning Lab, a unique entrepreneurial venture that aims to
revitalise the idea of libraries from a traditional, quiet, cobwebbed
repository of knowledge to a dynamic, inviting and learning space designed for
the 21st-century child.
The awards
will be judged by a panel comprising Abha Adams, Shabbi Luthra, Ruchira Ghosh,
Peggy Sood, Shalini Advani, and Donavon Reinsmoen.
An advisory
committee drawn from the worlds of literature, the arts, and publishing that
include Paro Anand, Sanjna Kapoor, Usha Pandit, Mahesh Rao, Hemali Sodhi,
Himani Dalmia, Kirandeep Kaur, Preeti Gill, and Heeru Bhojwani is associated
with the initiative.
According to
Madan, “For the first time in the education world, we celebrate the unsung
champions: our librarians, along with our school heads, who open a world of
possibilities for our children through books. Through these awards; we hope to
create a road map to invigorate futuristic libraries, which can set out to
become role models for others.”The awards will be presented here on November 9.
Source
| https://indianexpress.com/
Regards
Mr.
Pralhad Jadhav
Master
of Library & Information Science (NET Qualified)
Research
Scholar (IGNOU)
Senior
Manager @ Knowledge Repository
Khaitan
& Co
Twitter
Handle | @Pralhad161978
Mobile @ 9665911593
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