This page introduces new members and has occasional items about member activities.  Before April 2019, members were announced on the home page News. To become a member, fill out the form below and join us!
Hong Kong Member
Welcome Karen Yip from Hong Kong who is a librarian.  She likes bookmarks with quotes or cute illustrations.   🔖✍️ 🐻🇭🇰📖 9 April 2020
Newsletter #14 Mailed
Members should have received the mailing sent 5 April 2020.  Contact us if you did not get it.  
Three New Members
Welcome Tammy Gardner from Maryland, USA who would love to make bookmarks.  🔖 ✍️ 🇺🇸  Aashi from Pune, India does make bookmarks and here are some samples.  🔖 🎨 🇮🇳  And Sai Sindhuja Vadiyampeta from Bangalore, India would like to swap cardboard, paper, leather and wooden bookmarks.  🔖 💼 🇮🇳  Welcome all!  5 March 2020
Member Frank X. Roberts Publishes a Book
Titled "Essays on Bookmarks and Related Topics", Frank's book is a compilation of his work over many years of collecting and researching bookmarks.  He has generously donated up to 10 copies to winners of the World Bookmark Day raffle and Asim Maner Award Winner.  To learn more about Frank. see this member profile.  Congratulations and thank you!  20 February 2020 📖 ✍️👏 🔖
Bookmark Lover from Wisconsin, USA
Michelle Pietsch reminds us to never, ever dog ear a page.  She says bookmarks are their own genre of art. Utilitarian, yes, but art as well. See her "Don't Bend the Page" on Pinterest for some great examples.  Welcome Michelle!  🔖 🎨🇺🇸 📚 17 February 2020
Children Make Bookmarks in Missouri, USA
Karen Maxson works in the Community Relations department of the Springfield-Greene County (Missouri), USA Library District. She says, "Of course, we use bookmarks to advertise our programs and resources, but we also have an annual design-a-bookmark contest for children grades K-12 that is quite popular. Your website and the global bookmark-loving community it represents are an inspiration to us."  Karen promises to send us the bookmark contest winners in April.  Welcome Karen and children! 🧒🔖 🚸📚🇺🇸 11 February 2020
Collector from Portugal
Welcome Fernando Pereira from Braga who has a large collection, especially from publishers to swap.  📖 🔖 🇵🇹 📚 22 January 2020
Collector from The Netherlands
Olav Claassen has a large collection of paper bookmarks with many duplicates he would like to trade.  Find him on the Swap page.  Welcome Olav!  🔖 📖 🇳🇱 🔖 15 January 2020
Illustrator from India
Manasa Jangala is interested in making watercolor bookmarks and has contributed four beautiful designs to World Bookmark Day.  Thank you Manasa and welcome!  🔖 👩‍🎨🎨 🇮🇳 🔖 11 January 2020
Collector from Brasil
Maria Machado likes to collect bookmarks when she travels such as from museum gift shops, for instance, or depicting the city or some more artisanal ones.  See her interests on the swap list too.  We are glad Maria joined IFOB!  🔖 🧳 🇧🇷 🔖 2 January 2020
Two New USA Members
Welcome Hannah Phillips from New Jersey who collects vintage bookmarks, especially from bookstores and libraries, to use in her personal library.    Lisa Porter from Illinois likes beautiful bookmarks, especially Lena Liu vintage bookmarks. 🔖📚🇺🇸🦋🔖 19 December 2019
Librarian and Students from Louisiana Want to Swap
Laura Foy is a library media specialist with students ages 10-14 who want to swap bookmarks. See more details on the Swap page.  Welcome Laura!  📚 👨‍🎓👩‍🎓🔖 🇺🇸 2 December 2019
New Member from Florida
Lynsi McConnell joined the swap list and has all types of bookmarks.  Welcome! 🔖 📖🌴🇺🇸 🔖 29 November 2019
Bookmark Maker from New Mexico
Laura Sandison's interests in bookmarks are making them in fiber arts, history, sharing and making for reading programs. Welcome! 🔖 📚🇺🇸🔖 12 November 2019
First Member from Trinidad and Tobago
​Welcome Nicole Ramdass, a new collector who wants to swap to expand her collection.  She can exchange handmade bookmarks and travel bookmarks from her country for similar ones or anything artistic from others.  Hi Nicole!  🔖 🎨 🧳 🇹🇹 7 November 2019
Librarian / Teacher from New Mexico, USA
​Welcome Barbara Lower who is a retired school teacher and librarian.  She says "At the moment I am preparing a display for a public library in Albuquerque, NM for the month of February, 2020 on bookmarks: history, use, and designs of bookmarks. Would like any ideas that others have to offer."  Just in time for World Bookmark Day!  📖 👩🏻‍🏫 🔖 🇺🇸 6 November 2019
First Member from China
​Man Wong from Hong Kong is our first member from China.  His "Bookmarks and Memory" Facebook page shows his interests in bookmarks. Welcome Man!  🔖🇨🇳📖 6 November 2019
Librarian Collector from Greece
​Eri Chatzaki has 2500 bookmarks in her collection.  She lives in Heraklion, Crete in Greece.  Welcome Eri! 🔖 📚📖 🇬🇷 2 November 2019
UK Member 
​Elizabeth Bartlett from Weymouth, Dorset, UK collects Stevengraphs and memorial ribbons in particular.  She also gives talks to local groups and we hope she will be writing about her collecting interests too.  Welcome Liz! 🔖 ⚰️ 🇬🇧 🔖 29 October 2019
Bookmark Maker from the UK 
​Please welcome Sarah Wooten from Swanage, UK who has been making bookmarks and found IFOB.  🔖 🇬🇧 📖 9 October 2019
Portugal Member 
​Francisco Cova has 1700 bookmarks and would like to swap bookmarks about books and cities with any kind.  Welcome Francisco! 📖 🇵🇹 🔖 8 October 2019
Member from UK
​Michele Casling-Powell is our newest member from the UK.  She says she and her book group members love bookmarks, and she is a frequent buyer and producer of bookmarks.  Welcome Michele!  🔖📖 🇬🇧 30 August 2019
Member from Wales, UK
​Dai Howell , a writer, says he likes "how bookmarks can be things of beauty but also very useful practical devices. I love how they are useful art in that sense."  Welcome Dai!  🔖✍️ 🇬🇧 27 August 2019
Two More New Members
 Astrid Beckers from Netherlands writes about medieval bookmarks on her web site.  John Press from the UK has been collecting bookmarks from libraries, book shops, and places of interest since 1973 and would like to swap for the same.  Welcome Astrid 📖 ✍️ 🇳🇱 🔖  and John  🔖 📚 🇬🇧  23 August 2019
Two New Members and a New Country
Ecaterina Pasat joins us from Moldova and like classic bookmarks with interesting designs.  Debasis Mukhopadhyay is a writer and former librarian from India who likes film and book related bookmarks.  Both are on the swap list.  Welcome Ecaterina  🔖🇲🇩 and Debasis 📖 🎞  🇮🇳 !  16 August 2019
40-Year Collector from Spain
With over 30,000 bookmarks, Joan Ramon Galvez Marigot would like to swap preferences including doorknobs, turtles, masonry, and iman.  See the Swap page for more details.  Welcome Joan!  🔖🐢🇪🇸 🔖  27 July 2019
Handmade Bookmarks  from UK
Jurga Albrecht would like to swap mostly handmade bookmarks (knitted, crocheted) for any kind.  Welcome Jurga!  🔖 🧶 🇬🇧 🔖 17 July 2019
Leather Bookmarks Fan from UK
Charlie Connelly, a writer from Kent, likes leather and leather-effect bookmarks from places he visits.  His favorite was from the New York Public Library, since lost.  He visited again and bought four others, but still misses that original favorite.  He has already made a donation to IFOB.  Thanks and welcome Charlie!  📖 🔖 ✍️ £  🇬🇧 📖 8 July 2019
Bookmarks Maker from Maryland, USA
John Punith is starting to make bookmarks from card stock (and will share some examples in the future).  He says he is glad that he is not the only one fascinated by this simple contraption.  Welcome John!  🔖🔖🇺🇸🔖🔖 6 July 2019
Collector and Writer about Bookmarks from Massachusetts, USA
We are honored to have Frank X. Roberts, former librarian and professor join us. Frank has published a book of essays on bookmarks (soon to be republished) and an extensive bibliography which we hope to make available on IFOB.  He also donated most of his collection to a library.  Welcome, Frank!  🔖 👨‍🏫 📖 🇺🇸 ✍️ 25 June 2019
Illustrator from South Wales, UK
Gemma Williams loves the idea that a bookmark can be a piece of art that's often cheap or even free and therefore owning a piece of art is accessible to everyone.  Welcome, Gemma!  🔖 👩‍🎨 🖼 🇬🇧 🔖 25 June 2019
Librarian from Indiana, USA
Brittani Webb likes bookmarks with quotes.  Welcome, Brittani!  📖 ❝❞🇺🇸 📖  25 June 2019
Brazil Collector with Many Bookmarks to Swap 
Bárbara Luana Lima Freitas from São Paulo collects mostly Manga, Comics, and Fantasy bookmarks and has many to swap.  Check her entry on the swap page for more details.  Welcome Bárbara!  🔖 🐉 🦄 🇧🇷 🔖 25 June 2019
Member from Singapore 
Alicia Tay likes the designs and illustrations on bookmarks.  She is our second member from Singapore.  Welcome, Alicia!   🔖 🎨 🇸🇬 📖 25 June 2019
40-Year Collector from the UK
Vincent Patrick Woods from Coventry has collected bookmarks for 40 years and is a member of The Bookmark Society.  He wants to swap his many doubles for all types, especially leather.  Welcome Vincent! 🔖 💼 🇬🇧 ✋ 🔖 13 June 2019
Member from Oregon, USA
Bridget Hanchek from Portland is a long time collector who is weeding her collection and wants to find new homes for those she is ready to part with.  She would like to receive paper bookmarks from the 1970s-80s, especially in languages other than English, especially Japanese.  She can swap for many different kinds in paper and other materials. And she can speak Japanese!  Welcome Bridget!  🔖 🏯 🇺🇸 🔖 13 June 2019
Australian Member 
Jeremey Ng from Adelaide, Australia is our 12th member from that country.  He enjoys making origami bookmarks and those made from upcycled fabrics with embroidery.  He wants to swap these for any kind of bookmark.  Welcome Jeremy!  📖🔖🇦🇺🔖📖 1 Jun 2019
Member from Florida, USA
Robin Grose, a writer from Margate, Florida, likes interesting freebie bookmarks (not childish),  and those made with "found" objects. Welcome Robin!  🔖🔖 ✍️🇺🇸  21 May 2019
Member with a Collection to Sell
Heather Carter contacted us because her mother passed away recently and she is looking for a home for her mother's extensive collection.  If we learn more about her collection, we'll add information.  Thanks, Heather, for making the effort to pass on your mother's collection.  🔖💐🇺🇸🥰 21 May 2019
Two Members Join
From England, a new member is D Clarke, a ferroequinologist (he studies trains) and collector of all things  related to trains including bookmarks.  He also wants to swap for advertising and book related bookmarks.  From Oklahoma, USA, Donna Bird, a teacher and writer, says she enjoys vintage and animal bookmarks, including those with interesting animal facts.  Welcome D Clarke 🔖🚂 🚃🇬🇧 and Donna 📖👩🏻‍🏫✍️🇺🇸 !! 15 May 2019 
Another Member from Brasil
Welcome Sinara de Oliveira Cortes from Rio Grande, RS, Brasil.  She likes to collect bookmarks for books of her favorite writers, especially of fantasy books and wants to exchange with people of other nationalities to make new friendships in the true spirit of IFOB.  See more details on the Swap page.  Hello Sinara!  📖📚👏🇧🇷📖 8 May 2019
​Member from Washington, USA
We have a new member and swap list participant from Spokane, Washington, USA - Shawna Hutchings. She sees bookmarks as pieces of art and great for sharing with her children.  She would like to receive any kind in exchange for handmade bookmarks or those from Free Libraries.  Check out her listing on the Swap page.  Welcome Shawna!  🔖👩‍🎨🎨👩‍👧‍👦🇺🇸🔖 8 May 2019
​Our First Member from Myanmar
Welcome to Hninwaddy Linlat from Yangon!  Hninwaddy is a bookseller and writer who loves books and thus appreciates bookmarks.  Thanks for joining IFOB! 📖👏🔖🇲🇲 1 May 2019 
​International Collector from Goleta, California, USA
Our newest member is Barbara McCaffrey who collects bookmarks from all over the world along with postcards and postage stamps. She would like to receive all genres and has many bookmarks of all genres to trade.  Find her on the Swap page.  Welcome Barbara!  🙌🔖📖🇺🇸🌐🌍  24 April 2019
Member from San Diego, California, USA
​We welcome an enthusiastic new member Scott Paulson, from San Diego, California.  Scott is interested in many types of paper crafts such as paper theatres, paper optical toys, and origami.  He has been collecting a few years and likes to use bookmarks to advertise the events he promotes in his job.  Scott wrote a blog post about his World Bookmark Day activities, and also made a very generous donation to IFOB.  Welcome Scott!  📖 👏🇺🇸💰🔖 12 April 2019
New Member from Turkey
Mustafa Aral from Bursa/Inegal, Turkey joins our swap list and wants to receive ​bookmarmks about comics (Marvel, DC character), manga and can send those about famous people (writers) and Turkish books. We missed adding him earlier - with apologies!   📖 🔖🇹🇷 😄 12 April 2019
Membership Grows to 162!
​ With the addition of Anke Rudeck from Hamburg, Germany, who likes to collect all kinds of bookmarks.  Welcome, Anke!📖  🔖🥰🇩🇪🔖📖 9 April 2019
New Member from New Mexico, USA
​ Welcome Angela Coffin from Albuquerque, New Mexico.  She loves handmade, vintage, and foreign bookmarks and those with spiders, mushrooms, and cemeteries. Thanks for joining us, Angela! 📖🔖🙌🕷🍄⚰️📖 4 April 2019
Become A Member
Membership is free of charge and qualifies for a subscription to our newsletters. It also enables you to write blog entries, articles and to display your artwork relating to bookmarks on our website. You will also be able to join our private Facebook group to communicate with other members. You can add a listing to the Swap page to swap bookmarks with other members all over the world. Interested? Join us by completing the application form below.

    Membership Application
Membership Guideline
We welcome all individuals with an interest in bookmarks to join us, independent of their nationality, ethnicity, religious and political views. However, we cannot tolerate any religious or political activities in our community because we believe that this will lead inevitably to the discrimination of some of our members. To this end, applications using email addresses from organisations with a religious or political character will not be accepted. Please use your private email address instead for the membership application and for your communications within the IFOB community. 
Make a donation:  We ask that members donate a small amount such as $5 to cover our operating expenses.  You may donate any amount if you wish to support our activities.  Thank you!