Jyoti's Library

In an International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) school, a research librarian plays a pivotal role in supporting students and faculty in achieving academic excellence. Here’s how a research librarian contributes to an IBDP school: 1. Supporting Academic Research Resource Provision : Curate and manage a diverse collection of resources, including books, academic journals, databases, and digital media that support IBDP curriculum needs and individual research projects. Research Guidance : Assist students in developing research skills, including how to formulate research questions, conduct literature reviews, and use academic databases effectively. Citation and Referencing : Provide instruction on proper citation and referencing practices in various styles (e.g., APA, MLA, Chicago) to ensure academic integrity. 2. Enhancing Information Literacy Instructional Workshops : Conduct workshops and classes on information literacy, helping students develop skills to evaluate sources, dis...

Ms. Sayanti, is a well known Counselor in Surat city and has worked for 17-18 years with several leading schools. In this conversation she talks on how School libraries and librarians can play a role by listening to students, not judging them, highlighting self-help books in the library, maintaining an emotional journal and escalating the cases to professional counselor at the right time. A must watch for every librarian.

The zoom conversation covers topics from Primary School Library to Senior School Library like what are illustration books? How is fine arts related to illustration? How an illustration is created? What are the different types of illustration? and how is illustration as a profession? The conversation would certainly develop an understanding and interest about illustration books among students. Next time when students would visit the school library, they would certainly look for their favourite illustration book. 

This is a story of School boy, Sahasrar. His parents had put him in English school so he could master the language. But his grammar was not perfect and he was very disappointed and lonely. His parents thought of giving him English tuition at home but even that did not help much. His School Librarian Ms. Jyoti came to know about this and often observed him closely. To be continued.....

One important part of scuba diving is calculating the amount of weight you’ll need to descend and ascend safely during a dive, which can be complicated. An incorrectly weighted dive can be very difficult. Why is it important that your weight is right during a dive? Your air consumption will be improved, you’ll have better control of your body and be able to make smooth descents and ascents, you’ll be able to hold your position during safety checks, and you’ll enjoy your dive more. If you are not correctly weighted, there will be signs during your dive. For instance, your streamlining will be off. Streamlining allows you to maintain a horizontal position in the water. If you are overweighed, your chest will be high and your legs will be below, and you will have to inflate your BCD (buoyancy control device) to compensate. If you're underweighted, your legs will be high in the water and your chest will be low and you will have to continuously kick to keep yourself down. This ...

How did the Tiger get her stripes? Very few scientists understood how these patterns emerge during the development of an organism and this mystery was solved curiously enough by a mathematician and not a biologist. This is an episode from The Maths Factor series; covers that how Maths and Biology- two subjects when brought together have given the world some of the most miraculous findings! This episode explores this curious connection while wandering through tiger terrain and observe the mathematics behind the patterns on their coats, climb evolutionary trees to see how closely one specie is connected to the other, it also travels to the 19th century and tracks the cholera outbreaks Source: NCERT Watch the video: Click Here

In this EXPLORATORY session on 'Startup incubation in School?', Ms Shilpi Agnihotri, HOD Commerce from Army Public School, Bhopal shares her thoughts and experience of teaching Business Studies to the students of Class XI & XII. She feels today, almost fifty percent of the class aspires to have their own business or be an entrepreneur. To nurture these aspirations a sense of business understanding can be developed among the children and an incubation cell comprising of different H.O.D's, Counsellors, Librarian and School leaders can be formed with an aim to help the students who really aspire to be nothing but entrepreneurs during their secondary school. In the other upcoming online sessions on "Startup Incubation in School?" we will discuss how school library along with other departments and faculties can together create a sense of practical business understanding among students and if it can help the born entrepreneurs get admitted into the best incubation ...

BummBumm Bole A 2010 Hindi film by Priyadarshan, starring Darsheel Safary, is entirely based on Iranian film Children of Heaven. Critical response to the film 'Children of Heaven' was highly positive. Some critics compared it to Vittorio de Sica's Bicycle Thieves (1948). Roger Ebert's review in the Chicago Sun-Times called it "very nearly a perfect movie for children" that "lacks the cynicism and smart-mouth attitudes of so much American entertainment for kids and glows with a kind of good-hearted purity". In 1998, it became the first Iranian film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, losing to the Italian film Life Is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni. The majority of its US earnings came after the nomination was announced. After the film had become well known worldwide due to the Oscar nomination, it was shown in several European, South American, and Asian countries between 1999 and 2001. It was ...

Searching for the most popular school library books of the year is obviously not as simple as a list of my favourite books from the year. A lot also depends on the kind of narrative the world has to offer. Shifting through the stellar titles and of course, reading, reading, and more reading. But challenge doesn’t even begin to describe the COVID year 2020. And still, we forged on because, more than anything else, books have the ability to heal, empower, and galva- nize. Art can give us a language to interpret the chaos of this world.    We school librarians are writers, editors, book lovers. We wouldn’t read through hundreds of contenders if we didn’t believe this was true. Most of all, we believe that the most important thing we can give the young people who will read the below titles is the message that there is still hope in these times of uncertainty.   The following selections offer a way to share the message that rings through Tami Charles’s revelatory book: “You,...