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Newsletter #28 sent 16 January 2025 Contact us if you didn't receive it. |
Printable bookmark designs: 9 designs from three contributors ( Go to Woboda page to download). Submit yours any time for 2025.
Local Events: San Diego, CA, USA; Lithuania, Spain, Poland. See the Woboda page for details.
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New editor: We welcome Rita Colognola, The Netherlands, as the new editor of the TBS News bibliography which she has updated, as well as the general bibliography, with update in progress. Thank you, Rita! 26 January 2025
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More TBS Occasional Papers: Sylvia Bunting, recently retired editor of TBS News and Occasional Papers, has given us permission to make 8 more Occasional Papers available., Nos. 8-16, July 2012-July 2017 (except No. 10 which is not yet available). Thank you Sylvia and The Bookmark Society! 27 January 2025
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A new section, On Marking Books Redux, debuts with an essay on Books and Cards Worth Giving: Paul Elder Bookmarks . 5 April 2024
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A History of Collecting Bookmarks - by Allison C. Meier, in Fine Books and Collections, Autumn 2023
Meier summarizes a brief history of bookmarks and quotes several collectors on their interests and reasons for collecting, including several IFOB members. She concludes: "A bookmark may last longer than the read itself, moving into other books, roving to new libraries, and hiding within the pages until maybe decades later it falls out again into the hand of a new reader, offering a trace of who held this book before." 20 September 2023 |
Japanese Antique Bookmarks
Toshio Toyoshima has published a book on antique or vintage Japanese bookmarks from the Meiji period to around the 1950s. Japanese antique bookmarks, which have been little known until now, have a unique view of the world that is quite different from that of the West. 26 Jun 2023 |
The Owl gallery has 9 examples from Jacek Hałuszkiewicz, Poland, 14 Jan 2025
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The Countries gallery now has many examples from Poland. 15 January 2025
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