At the end of last half term, five members of the Bangkok Patana Libraries team attended a BLISS network meeting. BLISS stands for Bangkok Librarians in International SchoolS and is the network that helps to connect libraries across Thailand. Over 70 librarians, from as far away as Chiang Mai and Hua Hin, and all across Bangkok, descended for a fabulous day discussing all things libraries and books.

The day included presentations that challenged our thinking about the books we buy and offer our communities, how we organise our non-fiction sections to make for easier access and greater promotion, the value of wordless books and how they impact our thinking at all ages, how we use our physical spaces, how we make the best use of our cataloguing systems (most of which is never seen by our users!) engaging children and students in activities that promote reading, sharing excellent book recommendations for our collections, this year’s Kids’ Lit Quiz competition, amongst many other great discussions.