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Cutout advertising bookmark from 1930s published by the Italian insurance company Compagnia Assicurazione di Milano
      
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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.
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Member News
272 total members from 42 countries; ​130 on the Swap page; updated 18 July  2022
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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 #19 sent 1 January 2022  Contact us if you didn't receive it. 

World Bookmark Day Latest News
Read about the story told on 183 bookmarks in Lithuanian libraries for World Bookmark Day under Local Events. 3 May 2022
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This is what the story "A Girl Who Wanted to Make Friends" from 183 bookmarks looks like.
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Printable bookmark design by Bella Chan, Hong Kong
Celebrated on 25 February  🔖 📖 📚 
And the winners are...
Raffle: Winner - Jonathan Xuereb, Malta ; second place Vilija Jociene, Lithuania
Asim Maner Award: Man Wong, Hong Kong: see blog post profile. 9 March 2022
Collection Award: Jonathan Xuereb, Malta; see blog post about his collection. 4 March 2022

Congratulations!
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Examples from Jonathan Xuereb's Book Depository Collection
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Printable Woboda bookmarks from Rosemarie Abel. All are welcome to send designs now for 2022.
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Two more printable bookmark designs from Karen Marshall, USA. 8 January 2022
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Printable bookmark design by Regina Mačiulytė, Lithuania

Featured Bookmark Producer
Featured in Quotes
Featured Link
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The Dribbly Yak, an Irish company, burns literary designs onto Irish wood. 6 January 2022
 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
Featured in Reading Room
Two oldies but goodies have been added.  20 October 2021
​Under Collectors' Interests, a link to Don Baldwin's blog, Bookmark Buzz.
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​Under Interviews, a link to an interview of Howie Schector, collector of silver bookmarks. 
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Featured in IFOB Publications
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Charting the Course of Celluloid Bookmarks by Laine Farley 20 October 2020; updated 13 March 2021

Bibliographies
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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 December 2021, and his index of TBS News updated 30 March 2022
Latest Blog Post
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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

Featured Gallery
The Owl Gallery has 3 new bookmarks from Heather Harrington, USA 5 May 2022
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From Heather Harrington, May 2022
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From Heather Harrington, May 2022
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From Heather Harrington, May 2022


The Bookmarks on Bookmarks Gallery has a new example from Helga Moghaddam 5 May 2022
The Countries Gallery has 7 new bookmarks on Germany from Helga Moghaddam. 5 May 2022
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The bookmark is a miniature version of the bookmark! From Helga Moghaddam 5 May 2022
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Map of Germany with neighboring countries from Helga Moghaddam
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The sign says "Attention, here you are leaving West-Berlin".

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  • Home
    • News from 2019
  • About
    • Member News
    • Contact
    • Site Map
  • Blog
  • Bookmark Swap
    • Raffle
  • WOBODA
    • WOBODA 2021 >
      • WOBODA 2020
      • WOBODA 2019 >
        • WOBODA 2018
        • WOBODA 2017
        • Wobo on World Tour 2016
  • Gallery
    • Gallery Page 3 - New Year's
    • Gallery Page 4 - Bookmarks on Bookmarks
    • Gallery Page 5 - Care of Books
    • Gallery Page 6 - Owls
    • Gallery Page 7 - Woboda Bookmarks
    • Gallery Page 8 - Countries
  • Library
    • Reading Room
    • Book Reviews
    • Bookmark Quotes
    • IFOB Publications >
      • Earliest History of Bookmarks
      • Diamond Registration Marks on British Bookmarks
      • World Literature Classics
      • Holiday Haunts Bookmarks of the Great Western Railway
      • Reprints of the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games Bookmarks
      • Fascinating Bookmarks
      • Traditional Costumes of Countries - A bookmark Series by Rowohlt Verlag
      • Charting the Course of Celluloid Bookmarks
  • Bibliographies
  • Workshop
  • Events
  • Links
  • Bookmark Producers