http://blogs.ifla.org/riss/2013/05/20/introducing-bibliotherapy-in-public-libraries-for-the-development-of-health-and-social-conditions-of-post-war-community-in-jaffna-district-an-exploratory-study/
‘Information Eye”- the new vision of Foundation for Library Awareness
(FOLA) for the Value Based education – is the successfully running
exhibition project to improve the reading habits in the society of
Jaffna district. There is a corner in this exhibition namely “Medicine
for soul” focused on Use of information as bibliotherapic tool. (http://folalk.blogspot.com/)
This corner provides a sensitive way for a viewer to guide to
understand themselves and the environment, and possibly find solutions
to their problems. Information displayed here is Book for Creative
Writing: Students can create a diary for a character in the story,
write a letter from one character to another write a poem to stimulate
students’ thinking about themselves, Book for Art Activities: Draw a
map to illustrate story events, draw pictures of events in the story.
Discussion and Role-Playing: Students participate in a roundtable
discussion about the decision of a character in the story, role-play
events in the story, Books for healing by reading, Self-motivating books
images.
