Author: Jewel, Anandita and Sujata

An exploratory exercise on Librarian-based illustrations in Picture Books By Jewel Gomes, Anandita Rao and Sujata Noronha For most of us who work at Bookworm, a library-based organisation, the library is our universe. From reading other research on the library as a place and the place of the library in literature we have been thinking and seeking more understanding around this construct to both understand ourselves and our work but to also look at how positioning these pieces of literature on our library shelves can impact our readers. We are also curious in trying to understand how the place of the library has been changing and if literature records these shifts. In books for middle school and older, we are quite easily able to talk about how the library is positioned in say J.K Rowlin...