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three sessions. The first session was conducted by “The Penguin Librarian’s Meet 2019” at India
Ms. Mamta Deshwal who took a session on “Why International Center, New Delhi remained another
every student should read books?”. It started big event in the past session. The day proved
with an interesting memory test activity, followed one of great learning for my mentor Ms. Mamta
by a talk on benefits of reading books. There was Deshwal who along with 60 other librarians from
a discussion about the barriers and hindrances in reputed school attended the meet. The day began
reading books, the main being the non-availability with a presentation on “Dream Big : Bringing
of good books. I was sad to hear this. Next was the stories to life” by Ms. Andrea Bowie followed by
story telling session by Ms. Anjana Dang. She indeed a panel discussion on “This Book is not for me:
proved to be an amazing story teller. The beautiful How and Why do we select or reject Books?” by
props used by her laid a long lasting effect on the Dr. Tanushree Singh, Mr. Deepak Dalal in conversation
students. Ms. Vinita in the third session narrated a with two senior school librarian. The highlight of the
heart touching story which too kept the students day was the interaction with Shri Manish Sisodia,
absorbed throughout. Honorable Deputy Chief Minister and Education
A landmark moment came up on September Minister, Delhi State. My mentor was kind enough
27, 2019, when Ms. Satinder Kaur Verma (DEO, to get for my collection an autographed copy of his
Faridabad) inaugurated the resourceful DPS book ‘Shiksha : My experiments as an Education
Greater Faridabad Digital Library. She was generous Minister’.
enough to shower all praises for the extensive
range of resources, I-Pads and learning material I
store. She also complimented the overall aura and
ambience I carried. You can imagine, how delighted
I must have been!
The last month of this year, introduced another
big event in the annual itinerary, the ‘Bookrang:
Children’s Literary Fest’. It was organized on
December 14, 2019 in collaboration with the group
‘Beyond Classroom’. My young readers got an
opportunity to meet various authors, illustrators,
story-tellers, astronomers and many more artists.
It was an exciting, fun-filled day for my Dipsites. I
All my efforts paid, when the news was declared to must thank ‘Penguin Publishers’ and of course, our
me that I am the recipient of the very prestigious School Principal, Ms. Surjeet Khanna for giving us
Bandana Sen Library Awards. The award ceremony such an exciting opportunity.
on November 09, 2019 felicitated the top 25
trailblazers school Libraries. My mentor and her The same month also witnessed the “Pebble
team has worked really hard to bring me up and Painting’ activity in which the members of
truly deserved this prestigious award. ‘Readers Club’ painted their favorite book’s cover,
character and title on the pebbles. The result was
just awesome! One of my corner treasures these
colorful art pieces.
January 24, 2020 was dedicated to the ‘One
Nation, Reading Together’ programme where in
the students of Classes 1 to VIII spent 15 minutes of
their day reading their favorite book.
Towards the end of session, in the month of
February, it is time for me to reward my vivid
readers. “Hungry to Read” project that encouraged
students to read and display their reading books
list in the creative corner had to be concluded
with an acknowledgement of students efforts. We
awarded badges and prizes to students who had
read maximum books. This whole program aimed
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