Cutout advertising bookmark from 1930s published by the Italian insurance company Compagnia Assicurazione di Milano
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Newsletter #24 sent 3 October 2023 Contact us if you didn't receive it. |
Celebrated on 25 February 🔖 📖 📚
the EIGHTH annual World Bookmark Day (WOBODA) will be celebrated in 2024. Go to the Woboda page see examples of activities and submit your entries and examples now! 16 November 2023
the EIGHTH annual World Bookmark Day (WOBODA) will be celebrated in 2024. Go to the Woboda page see examples of activities and submit your entries and examples now! 16 November 2023
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Printable bookmark designs: see examples from previous years in the gallery. (go to Woboda page to download). Submit yours any time for 2024.
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Pullout bookmarks to make, illustrating children´s safety education in former East Germany (DDR)
submitted by Helga Moghaddam, 28 April 2023
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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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An interview of the founder of Papilionaceous pure silk bookmarks by Lauren Roberts from 2008 has been discovered and added. February 2023
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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
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Charting the Course of Celluloid Bookmarks by Laine Farley 20 October 2020;
updated 13 March 2021
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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 
Stuart Hudson's collection focusing on bookstores; photo by Hannah Hudson
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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 
"Japanese Antique Bookmarks“ 『ニッポンのアンティークしおり』 by Toshio Toyoshima 豊嶋利雄
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The Bookmark Society has provided pdf copies of the first 7 Occasional Papers on our Bibliography page. 14 August 2020
Georg Hartong's Bibliography updated 24 March 2023, and his index of TBS News updated 24 September 2023.
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Member Profile 7 July 2023: Asim Maner Award Winner 2023 - Vilija Jocienė
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A new gallery called Bookmarks Speak was inspired by Gintautas Deksnys to surround bookmarks with complementary images and provide a title that suggests the message carried by the bookmark. Very creative! 22 November 2022
I exchange paths between us and the stars from Gintautas Deksnys
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Life in a circle from Gintautas Deksnys
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Can you feel it - Spring from Gintautas Deksnys
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The Owl Gallery has new bookmarks 28 April 2023
From Gintautas Deksnys, Lithuania, carved wooden owl from the Philippines 28 April 2023
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Helga Moghaddam, Germany, made this bookmark out of the book cover “Ökonokomik, Humorous sides of economics, by Arno Sölter”. 7 April 2023
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Helga found in the book, attached as a personal bookmark this lovely owl, dedicated to Arno Sölter´s friends, colleagues and readers. 7 April 2023
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The Countries Gallery has seven handmade bookmarks from Uganda contributed by Helga Moghaddam 5 May 2023. She sent seven hand painted leather bookmarks from Uganda and two from Kenya. 27 July 2023
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The Bookmarks on Bookmarks Gallery has 4 new examples of humorous bookmarks featuring a stack of books with bookmarks peeking out, presided over by bookworms, a mouse and a turtle, all by Antioch Publishing from Laine Farley 27 February 2023
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Hand painted leather gazelle from Kenya from Helga Moghaddam
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Handmade bookmark from Uganda of giraffes from Helga Moghaddam
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Massai figures on fig tree bark bookmark from Helga Moghaddam
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Another cartoonish design with a bookworm on a stack of books from Laine Farley
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