Cutout advertising bookmark from 1930s published by the Italian insurance company Compagnia Assicurazione di Milano
      
​Welcome to our Homepage
International  Friends of Bookmarks (IFOB) is a community of bookmark lovers with members all over the world who are interested in bookmarks, such as passionate readers, bookmark collectors, librarians, illustrators, blog editors, product designers, bookshop owners, bookmark producers, and others. Read more about us & our mission and join us here.
What's New
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260 total members from 41 countries; ​130 on the Swap page; updated 9 November 2021
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For information on membership benefits and to become a member, fill out the form at the bottom of the About page.  Newsletter #18 sent 12 October 2021.  Contact us if you didn't receive it. 
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300 bookmarks are in the raffle as of 21 November 2021. Enter by January 15, 2022.
Celebrated on 25 February  🔖 📖 📚 
Preparations are beginning for World Bookmark Day (Woboda) 2022.  A new award for best Bookmark Collection this year! 3 October 2021
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Examples from Jonathan Xuereb's Book Depository Collection
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Printable Woboda bookmarks from Jane Schneider for 2021. All are welcome to send designs now for 2022.
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Bookla, a Greek company, produces beautiful fabric bookmarks. 7 April 2021
 Member Debrah Gai Lewis has created a section on Bookmark Quotes and Bookmark Allusions on her Mark My Place web site.  The allusions were inspired by member Frank X. Roberts' chapter on "Is There a Bookmark in This Text" from his book St. Augustine’s Finger: Medieval Bookmarks and Related Topics.  7 April 2021
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See the range of bookmarks issued for the 1933/1934 Chicago World's Fair from Bill O's collection. 7 April 2021
Two oldies but goodies have been added.  20 October 2021
​Under Collectors' Interests, a link to Don Baldwin's blog, Bookmark Buzz.

​Under Interviews, a link to an interview of Howie Schector, collector of silver bookmarks. 
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Charting the Course of Celluloid Bookmarks by Laine Farley 20 October 2020; updated 13 March 2021
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The Bookmark Society has provided pdf copies of the first 7 Occasional Papers on our Bibliography page. 14 August 2020
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Georg Hartong's Bibliography updated 30 October 2021, and his index of TBS News updated 17 October 2020
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Michael Kalil's Bookmarks for the Museum of Modern Art by Rita Colognola, 29 October 2021
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Member Profile: Sylvia Bunting, United Kingdom, 7 September 2021
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Member Profile: Randy Whiteman from Canada 4 March 2021
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The Bookmarks on Bookmarks gallery has four new examples of bookmarks on Victorian punched card designs. 2 October 2021
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New examples from Canada and Germany in the Countries Gallery. 1 February 2021