Welcome to our page WORLD BOOKMARK DAY (WOBODA) for 2018
Updated 26 February 2018
PRINTABLE BOOKMARKS-13 | BOOKMARK RAFFLE-705 - WINNER ANNOUNCED | TRAVELING BOOKMARK-5 | AND MORE!
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We are delighted to launch the second annual World Bookmark Day 25 February 2018 - WORLD BOOKMARK DAY (WOBODA) We celebrate the readers' little helper and the ever faithful companion of the books for 2000 years. Do you like, collect or produce bookmarks? Join us to spread the word about this worldwide event! Last year we celebrated the first World Bookmark Day to bring attention to bookmarks, the quiet companion of readers. Friends who love to use bookmarks while reading, friends who love to collect bookmarks, illustrate and produce bookmarks, who write blogs, articles, and books on bookmarks, friends who take care of them in libraries and museums, and some other unknown friends. Join us in our activities if you think you are a friend of bookmarks. The WOBODA is an excellent occasion to help bookmarks get the recognition they deserve. See what happened last year for WOBODA 2017. Join one of the activities listed below (printable designs, raffle and more) and help us. Please do spread the word about WOBODA and subscribe to our newsletter to receive the latest news on the activities. Are you surprised to hear that bookmarks are accompanying books for 2000 years already? Read more here. |
LIST OF ACTIVITIES
Join us with one of the activities listed below and be part of the World Bookmark Day
Join us with one of the activities listed below and be part of the World Bookmark Day
1. YOU ARE AN ILLUSTRATOR OR ARTIST? CREATE A FREE PRINTABLE BOOKMARK FOR THE WOBODA 2018
Submit a free printable bookmark design (uncompressed jpeg, 200 x 75 mm, RGB mode) for this page. Please add the following text anywhere on your design: World Bookmark Day (or just Woboda); 25 February 2018; www.ifobookmarks.org/woboda. Include Your Name - Your status (collector, artist, designer) from (your country) - your web site or social media. Thank you!
Free Printable Bookmarks for the World Bookmark Day
; How to use these bookmarks?
Download and print your favourite bookmark. Once you have a Woboda bookmark, keep one with you when you travel or go around and make a picture of the bookmark alone or together with you at different places. Send us the pictures for publication here on this page per email: please do not forget to write the name of the place and your name or your nickname (see also point 2. below).
Please respect the copyright of the artists: bookmarks are free to use for private purposes only. If you publish pictures of the bookmarks on internet, please do not remove the credits. Thank you.
Submitting artists: Mary V. Marsh, Oakland, California, USA; Gary Handman, Berkeley, California, USA; Rosemarie Abel, Duisburg, Germany; Sharon Hall Shipp, Wales, UK; Marilyn R. Rosenberg, New York, New York, USA; Regina Maciulyte, Lithuania
Download and print your favourite bookmark. Once you have a Woboda bookmark, keep one with you when you travel or go around and make a picture of the bookmark alone or together with you at different places. Send us the pictures for publication here on this page per email: please do not forget to write the name of the place and your name or your nickname (see also point 2. below).
Please respect the copyright of the artists: bookmarks are free to use for private purposes only. If you publish pictures of the bookmarks on internet, please do not remove the credits. Thank you.
Submitting artists: Mary V. Marsh, Oakland, California, USA; Gary Handman, Berkeley, California, USA; Rosemarie Abel, Duisburg, Germany; Sharon Hall Shipp, Wales, UK; Marilyn R. Rosenberg, New York, New York, USA; Regina Maciulyte, Lithuania
Woboda bookmark by Mary V. Marsh
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1. Mary V. Marsh - has been making art and working in libraries in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1984. She received an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1992. She has exhibited throughout the Bay Area with solo shows at, San Jose Museum of Art, San Francisco Art Commission at Grove Street, Berkeley Art Center, San Francisco Public Library Skylight Gallery and Mercury 20. Currently an Artist in Residence at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, California, she makes artist’s books, prints and collaborative work with Tony Bellaver at Quite Contrary Press, in Oakland, California. Quite Contrary Press is in the collections of SFMOMA Library, The Bancroft Library, Yale University Art Library and many others. Recording patterns of daily activities and observations in journal drawings and diary entries, Marsh creates prints, artist’s books and assemblages exploring the intersection of mass media, consumption and personal habits. Materials and techniques suggest an evolving history of communication.
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Woboda bookmark by Mary V. Marsh
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Woboda bookmark by Mary V. Marsh
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reading rights These First and Fourth Amendment rights must continually be used, fought for and protected. A surviving newsstand in San Francisco, near Sansome and Bush. Support newspapers to support freedom of the press. A photo-op with GW Bush at a school library recalls the USA PATRIOT Act, now the FREEDOM Act, compromising our right to privacy. Temescal Branch, Oakland Public Library. Use your library to support free social services. Express yourself with the written word. Speech-plus is the right of free speech with action, such as public protest. |
Woboda bookmark by Mary V. Marsh
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2. Gary Handman is an occasional freelance illustrator and cartoonist whose work has appeared in a strangely diverse gaggle of books and journals. In a former (pre-retirement) life he daylighted as the film and video librarian of the University of California, Berkeley library. His WOBODA bookmark was drawn with one-finger on an iPhone using the Tayasui Sketches app.
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Woboda bookmark by Gary P. Handman
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Woboda bookmark by Rosemarie Abel
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3. Rosemarie Abel , our member from Duisburg, Germany submitted these four interesting designs.
Woboda bookmark by Rosemarie Abel
Woboda Bookmark by Rosemarie Abel
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Woboda bookmark by Rosemarie Abel
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Woboda bookmark g and h by Sharon Hall Shipp
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4. Sharon Hall Shipp is an artist from Presteigne, Wales, UK. Here is her web site and statement:
In my art practice I examine family life and domestic space and look at the roles of family members and communication between them. I often incorporate toys, children's books, family photographs and board games in my work and I use a wide range of media and techniques - including digital drawing, photography, hand stitching on textiles, collage, printing, drawing and painting. Before becoming a full-time fine artist, I was a library professional and have retained a general interest in libraries and books. As part of my art practice I also make artists' books and have had a book selected for the Tate Modern collection in London. I've been exhibiting since 2011 and have had work selected for shows in London and throughout the UK, Europe and the US. I was a contributor to Bookmarks XV - Infiltrating the Library System 2017/18 coordinated by the Centre for Fine Print Research at UWE Bristol, and also to their World Book Day project in 2017. For the WOBODA bookmarks, I selected index pages taken from a 1960s children's encyclopedia which is the basis of a large installation which I am showing in April 2018. |
Woboda bookmark p and q by Sharon Hall Shipp
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Woboda bookmark by Marilyn R. Rosenberg
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5. Marilyn R. Rosenberg is working, alone and with collaborators, on asemic and visual poems, edition artists’ books and sculptural one of a kind bookworks, artists’ stamps, bookmarks, mail art and more. Many works are published in print and on the web, in zines, anthologies and exhibition catalogs. See works in about 100 university, college and museum libraries. Latest exhibitions-2017, ASEMIC WRITING: Offline & In the Gallery, MCBA, MN; FOSSIL TALES a group exhibition, 2018 Central Booking Gallery, New York; 2016-17-18, each Bookmarks group XIV and XV are Bookmarks by artists, sent to participating host venues around the world, concept and start at University of W. England, Bristol. MRR has a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, from the Graduate School of Arts and Science, of New York U, NY, NY. and a Bachelor of Professional Studies in Studio Arts, from Empire State College, State U of NY.
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6. Regina Maciulyte , our winner from last year's raffle and previous contributor of several designs has provided this beautiful scene and text for her bookmark.
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Woboda bookmark by Regina Maciulyte
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Attention: Don't click on the images for downloading (you get a small image in this case). Instead, click on the link "Download File"
You are an illustrator or artist and you wish to submit a bookmark for WOBODA? Please contact our webmaster.
2. SEND WOBO - THE WORLD TRAVELING BOOKMARK - ON JOURNEY & HELP HER
TO ACCOMPLISH HER MISSION
TO ACCOMPLISH HER MISSION
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On the left you see WOBO - the World Traveling Bookmark [NOTE: Image on the left has updated date to 2018 but it's blurry. Image on right has 2018 but is missing "introduction" at top] WOBO goes places on a mission to help her bookmark friends to get the recognition they deserve. The task of Wobo is to spread the word about this year's WORLD BOOKMARK DAY - on 25 February 2018. It is a very difficult task, actually, because only very few people know about this event yet. You can help Wobo a lot to accomplish her duty, if you wish. And how? Just download and print some copies of the Wobo bookmark. Then leave the bookmarks in a book, at a library or coffee shop or whatever place you think is fine for this purpose. The finders of your bookmarks are supposed to report their discovery on this page and do the same as you. Wobo visited many places last year--where will she go this time? Join the mission and help Wobo! Thank you! YOU HAVE FOUND A WOBO? Yay! Tell us your story. Where are you from and where have you found a Wobo? What was your reaction? What do you like about bookmarks? What are you going to do with Wobo? Are you letting her go, or keep her and send a new Wobo on journey? We'd love to hear from you! Write an email to our webmaster, she'll put your answers on this page. Thank you. Attention: Don't click on the image for downloading (you get a small image in this case). Instead, click on the link "Download File"
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WOBO ON WORLD TOUR 2018
Wobo the World Traveling Bookmark is going places with your help. She has been already spotted in: Luxembourg
See pictures from last year's tour here.
Wobo the World Traveling Bookmark is going places with your help. She has been already spotted in: Luxembourg
See pictures from last year's tour here.
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Vilija Jociene traveled with Wobo to Telsiai in Lithuania).Left: foot of bear; middle: map of Europe; right: map of Lithuania. Thank you Vilija! 24 February 2018
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Wobo visits Paris?
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Got you! No, Wobo was not in Paris! This miniature copy of the Eiffel tower can be seen in Apach, a small French village just opposite the Luxembourgish village of Schengen, the cradle of Europe! On this site in the border triangle (France, Germany, Luxembourg) something great was done: an old tollhouse was transformed into a tiny self service library. A transnational cooperation in combination with books – so much better than separation and borders! I left a bunch of bookmarks there to promote Woboda 2018! From Gaby Dondlinger, Luxembourg, 5 February 2018
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Gaby with Mary V. Marsh's Woboda bookmark in Apach.
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Wobo welcomes spring in the garden in Oakland, California, USA, 5 February 2018
, 3. JOIN OUR WOBODA CELEBRATION BOOKMARK RAFFLE
You like and collect bookmarks? Here you can win a huge lot of bookmarks from all over the world!
Send us bookmarks to participate in the raffle. For each 10 bookmarks you send, you'll get a raffle ticket. So, you are free to choose how many bookmarks you wish to send. Of course, your chances to win are higher the more tickets you have. On the World Bookmark Day - 25 February 2018 - the winner will be drawn by lot and he or she will get all the accumulated bookmarks. We expect that until the draw day the raffle pot will inclose a huge number of bookmarks, And they can be won by you!
The bookmarks sent by the winner of the raffle will be given to a second winner so that you don't receive back your own contributions to the raffle.
Current status:
705 bookmarks are in the raffle pot as of 23 February 2018
Donations:
58 bookmarks donated by Laine Farley (many U.S. bookstores plus some with tassels)
10 bookmarks donated by Robin Blum, President, In My Book greeting card bookmarks
33 bookmarks donated by the Bookmark Bookstore, Oakland, CA, USA
110 bookmarks donated by IFOB co-editor Georg Hartong, Netherlands
Total number of donations: 211
Number of participants: 9
Number of raffle tickets: 49
Your chances are still very high to win this raffle!
Send your bookmarks to join and win the giant heap of bookmarks in the raffle pot!
The list of participants and their tickets:
1. Randy Whiteman, Canada, 53 bookmarks (5 tickets, no 1-5); lucky number 34
2. Aristomenis Sofouris, Greece, 100 bookmarks (10 tickets, no. 6-15); lucky number 9
3. Regina Maciulyte, Lithuania, 50 bookmarks (5 tickets, no. 16-20); lucky number 71
4. Debrah Gai Lewis, Australia, 25 bookmarks (3 tickets--rounding up because she contributed last year, no. 21-23); lucky number 62
5. Julija Stankeviciene, Lithuania, 30 bookmarks (3 tickets, no. 24-26); lucky number 23
6. Vilija Jociene, Lithuania, 23 bookmarks (2 tickets, no. 27-28); lucky number 27
7. Helga Moghaddam, Germany, 133 bookmarks (13 tickets, no. 29-41); lucky number 14
8. Gaby Dondlinger, Luxembourg, 10 bookmarks (1 ticket, no. 42); lucky number 13
9. Kerrie More, USA, 70 bookmarks (7 tickets, no. 43-49); lucky number 10
Total number of bookmarks: 494; Total number of tickets: 49; Total of lucky numbers: 263
You like and collect bookmarks? Here you can win a huge lot of bookmarks from all over the world!
Send us bookmarks to participate in the raffle. For each 10 bookmarks you send, you'll get a raffle ticket. So, you are free to choose how many bookmarks you wish to send. Of course, your chances to win are higher the more tickets you have. On the World Bookmark Day - 25 February 2018 - the winner will be drawn by lot and he or she will get all the accumulated bookmarks. We expect that until the draw day the raffle pot will inclose a huge number of bookmarks, And they can be won by you!
The bookmarks sent by the winner of the raffle will be given to a second winner so that you don't receive back your own contributions to the raffle.
Current status:
705 bookmarks are in the raffle pot as of 23 February 2018
Donations:
58 bookmarks donated by Laine Farley (many U.S. bookstores plus some with tassels)
10 bookmarks donated by Robin Blum, President, In My Book greeting card bookmarks
33 bookmarks donated by the Bookmark Bookstore, Oakland, CA, USA
110 bookmarks donated by IFOB co-editor Georg Hartong, Netherlands
Total number of donations: 211
Number of participants: 9
Number of raffle tickets: 49
Your chances are still very high to win this raffle!
Send your bookmarks to join and win the giant heap of bookmarks in the raffle pot!
The list of participants and their tickets:
1. Randy Whiteman, Canada, 53 bookmarks (5 tickets, no 1-5); lucky number 34
2. Aristomenis Sofouris, Greece, 100 bookmarks (10 tickets, no. 6-15); lucky number 9
3. Regina Maciulyte, Lithuania, 50 bookmarks (5 tickets, no. 16-20); lucky number 71
4. Debrah Gai Lewis, Australia, 25 bookmarks (3 tickets--rounding up because she contributed last year, no. 21-23); lucky number 62
5. Julija Stankeviciene, Lithuania, 30 bookmarks (3 tickets, no. 24-26); lucky number 23
6. Vilija Jociene, Lithuania, 23 bookmarks (2 tickets, no. 27-28); lucky number 27
7. Helga Moghaddam, Germany, 133 bookmarks (13 tickets, no. 29-41); lucky number 14
8. Gaby Dondlinger, Luxembourg, 10 bookmarks (1 ticket, no. 42); lucky number 13
9. Kerrie More, USA, 70 bookmarks (7 tickets, no. 43-49); lucky number 10
Total number of bookmarks: 494; Total number of tickets: 49; Total of lucky numbers: 263
🎁🎁🎁 The winning ticket number is 18! - This ticket belongs to the winner of the World Bookmark Day Raffle 2018 🎁🎁🎁
The winner Regina Maciulyte is from Lithuania. Congratulations, Regina !
The winner Regina Maciulyte is from Lithuania. Congratulations, Regina !
As with the first Woboda, we decided that the bookmarks submitted by the winner will be given to a second place winner to prevent the winner from getting his/her own bookmarks back. The second winner is the participant next to the winner, as declared before.. This means:
🎁 The Second Place Winner of the Raffle is Debrah Gai Lewis from Australia - Congratulations, Debrah ! 🎁
Debrah gets the bookmarks Regina has submitted. Debrah will also receive a selection of bookmarks - as promised by Regina Maciulyte previously - which Regina is collecting voluntarily for the second winner on the Vilnius Book Fair. And Regina has also very generously offered to donate bookmarks from her two friends in Lithuania, so Debrah will received 103 from the raffle plus the Vilnius Book Fair batch. Thank you, Regina!!!!!
Debrah gets the bookmarks Regina has submitted. Debrah will also receive a selection of bookmarks - as promised by Regina Maciulyte previously - which Regina is collecting voluntarily for the second winner on the Vilnius Book Fair. And Regina has also very generously offered to donate bookmarks from her two friends in Lithuania, so Debrah will received 103 from the raffle plus the Vilnius Book Fair batch. Thank you, Regina!!!!!
The process for determining the winner of the raffle
All participants will be asked for an individual number between 1 and 99. Whereas all participants know their own number, they don't know the numbers of the other participants. At the end we will sum up all the individual numbers of the participants and will have a sum number. Let say that sum is 348. We have a certain number of raffle tickets at the end and each participant owns a part of the raffle tickets.
Here's an example to illustrate: let's say we have 8 participants and they have together 37 raffle tickets. The number of the winning ticket will be calculated by the following formula:
t = 348 / 37 = 9.40541 - 9 = 0.40541 x 37 = 15 The ticket numbers are given in the order of the participants' joining date. In our case, participant 1 has two tickets, no 1 and 2, participant 2 has 3 ticket (ticket number 3, 4, and 5), participant 3 has 2 tickets (ticket number 6 and 7) etc. There is only one exception in the calculation: if the calculation gives 0 that means the highest ticket number, in our case ticket number 51.
Well, this sounds rather complicated, however, it is completely verifiable and there is no chance of manupulating it by anybody. The lot is drawn by the participants themselves so to speak! All new participants should send along their bookmarks also an individual number between 1 and 99.
In order to prevent the winner from getting back his/her own bookmarks, the bookmarks of the winner will be given to a second winner. The second winner is the participant next to the winner according to the joining date (in this case we made it easy as the winning ticket is already determined). In case the winner is the last joining participant, the second winner is then the the first participant according to this logic.
Shipping and Mailing: The shipping costs for sending the bookmarks to the winner as a recorded and insured parcel will be covered by us. The shipping costs for the bookmarks you send us are covered by you, and we are not liable if your bookmarks get lost in the mail.
Shipping address for your bookmarks: IFOB Raffle, c/o Laine Farley, 1814 Clemens Rd., Oakland, CA, USA 94602
Remember to enclose your name and email address if you send bookmarks to us. Bookmarks which arrive after 25 February 2018 will not participate in the raffle and they will not be sent back.
All participants will be asked for an individual number between 1 and 99. Whereas all participants know their own number, they don't know the numbers of the other participants. At the end we will sum up all the individual numbers of the participants and will have a sum number. Let say that sum is 348. We have a certain number of raffle tickets at the end and each participant owns a part of the raffle tickets.
Here's an example to illustrate: let's say we have 8 participants and they have together 37 raffle tickets. The number of the winning ticket will be calculated by the following formula:
t = 348 / 37 = 9.40541 - 9 = 0.40541 x 37 = 15 The ticket numbers are given in the order of the participants' joining date. In our case, participant 1 has two tickets, no 1 and 2, participant 2 has 3 ticket (ticket number 3, 4, and 5), participant 3 has 2 tickets (ticket number 6 and 7) etc. There is only one exception in the calculation: if the calculation gives 0 that means the highest ticket number, in our case ticket number 51.
Well, this sounds rather complicated, however, it is completely verifiable and there is no chance of manupulating it by anybody. The lot is drawn by the participants themselves so to speak! All new participants should send along their bookmarks also an individual number between 1 and 99.
In order to prevent the winner from getting back his/her own bookmarks, the bookmarks of the winner will be given to a second winner. The second winner is the participant next to the winner according to the joining date (in this case we made it easy as the winning ticket is already determined). In case the winner is the last joining participant, the second winner is then the the first participant according to this logic.
Shipping and Mailing: The shipping costs for sending the bookmarks to the winner as a recorded and insured parcel will be covered by us. The shipping costs for the bookmarks you send us are covered by you, and we are not liable if your bookmarks get lost in the mail.
Shipping address for your bookmarks: IFOB Raffle, c/o Laine Farley, 1814 Clemens Rd., Oakland, CA, USA 94602
Remember to enclose your name and email address if you send bookmarks to us. Bookmarks which arrive after 25 February 2018 will not participate in the raffle and they will not be sent back.
RAFFLE NEWS
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Kerrie More sends 70 bookmarks from Montana, USA, many in series and designed for school children. Hooray Kerrie!
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International coverage of the raffle expands to Luxembourg with Gaby Dondlinger's contribution of 10 bookmarks. Thanks Gaby!
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A huge donation from IFOB co-editor Georg Hartong, the Netherlands! 110 bookmarks mainly from 2 Dutch publishing houses. The Cossee-bookmarks are really nice: the front cover printed on a enlarged detail of the front cover! 9 February 2018
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Wow! Helga Moghaddam sends 133 bookmarks from Germany! There are many die cuts and a wide variety of types. Thank you Helga! 10 February 2018
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Julia Stankeviciene from Lithuania adds 30 bookmarks to the raffle. Look at the interesting variety, a couple with cut outs. Thank you Julia! 7 February 2018
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Another contribution from Lithuania! Vilya Jociene sends 23 bookmarks including several with doubles, good for later swapping. Thank you Vilya! 7 February 2018
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Debrah Gai Lewis from Australia brings 25 bookmarks from that continent to extend our worldwide raffle. There are some children's bookmarks with fun graphics, the National Library of Australia has produced some nice ones and there is an old one from an insurance company. A very good assortment. Thanks so much Debrah!
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IFOB member and last year's winner Regina Maciiulyte from Lithuania has contributed 50 bookmarks to this year's raffle. She has chosen ones with interesting graphics as well as a batch of handmade bookmarks and a few of her own photographs (look for the R in the corner). Thank you Regina for another great contribution. 3 February 2018
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What could be more appropriate than a donation from the Bookmark Bookstore, in Oakland, California, USA! Thanks to board member and collector Winifred Walters and manager Scott Nanos, we have 33 more bookmarks to add to the raffle. There is a nice range of bookstores, libraries, museums, especially from California in this lot. The Bookmark benefits the Oakland Public Library and they are going to do something on 25 February for Woboda--stay tuned. Thank you Scott and Winifred. 3 February 2018
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We are absolutely delighted to receive a donation of 10 bookmark greeting cards from Robin Blum, owner of In My Book. These clever cards have reading and literature related sayings and the bookmark can be detached. What more could you want? Here is a sample but check the In My Book web site and Etsy shop for more designs and to see the bookmarks in action. Thank you Robin for supporting IFOB! 30 January 2018
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Applause for Aristomenis Sofouris from Athens, Greece who sent 100 colorful bookmarks, nicely grouped in packets. They show a range of subjects and designs. Thank you Aristomenis and good luck with your 10 tickets for the raffle! 30 January 2018
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Our first entrant and contributor is Randy Whiteman from Canada who sent 53 bookmarks, entitling him to 5 tickets. Here is a sample showing many from Canadian organizations, several die-cuts, children's books, and literary organizations such as book fairs. There are also some libraries and bookstores. Thank you Randy!
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The raffle pot is filled with over 58 bookmarks at the start: you can see some of them on the picture above. These bookmarks have been donated by co-editor Laine Farley |
We don't know, of course, how many bookmarks there will be in the raffle pot at the end. However, we will inform about the incoming bookmarks with a picture each time and the total number of bookmarks on the pile. Thus the development of the prize bookmarks can be followed on this page.
Please do spread the word about the raffle, and invite your friends to join in. The winning prize will increase with the number of players. We wish good luck to all participants.
Please do spread the word about the raffle, and invite your friends to join in. The winning prize will increase with the number of players. We wish good luck to all participants.
4. MAKE A PICTURE SHOWING A WOBODA BOOKMARK AT A REMARKABLE PLACE
First, download your favourite free printable bookmark from above or produce your own WOBODA bookmark. Then, take the bookmark with you to various places you go. Take pictures of your Woboda bookmark at remarkable places and send them to us to display them here on this page. That's all you need. Join us to make WOBODA known throughout the world, thank you!
We are curious to see at which cool places WOBODA bookmarks will pop up. - Contact our webmaster if you wish to send your picture (jpg files only): do not forget to write your name or nickname and the place where the picture is taken (country, town, and the spot, like Eiffel Tower, Shakespeare bookshop, North Pole, or town library. Instagram: @worldbookmarkday
First, download your favourite free printable bookmark from above or produce your own WOBODA bookmark. Then, take the bookmark with you to various places you go. Take pictures of your Woboda bookmark at remarkable places and send them to us to display them here on this page. That's all you need. Join us to make WOBODA known throughout the world, thank you!
We are curious to see at which cool places WOBODA bookmarks will pop up. - Contact our webmaster if you wish to send your picture (jpg files only): do not forget to write your name or nickname and the place where the picture is taken (country, town, and the spot, like Eiffel Tower, Shakespeare bookshop, North Pole, or town library. Instagram: @worldbookmarkday
Who has spotted World Bookmark Day bookmarks?
Send your pics to: infobeditor(at)gmail.com.
Send your pics to: infobeditor(at)gmail.com.
Gaby Dondlinger visited “Bicherbus”, a mobile library in a bus touring the country in Luxembourg. 13 February 2018
Here are some examples from last year.
Basel 28June2016 - photo by am
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Orell Füsli Bookstore in Basel 28June2016 am
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Basel river Rhine 28June2016 am
5. ORGANIZE A DISPLAY AND/OR BOOKMARK SWAP IN YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY OR BOOKSTORE
Just ask your local library what they make of a World Bookmark Day!
As far as we know, only few libraries have organised bookmark swaps yet, and in most cases the initiative came from collectors. However, libraries are generally interested in hosting events and thus they are likely to be receptive for the idea of a bookmark swap in their rooms. Offer to help in organizing the event and see what happens. It can be an exciting experience for you to discover other collectors in your area on this occasion. You can write us about a successful attempt, and we'll report about it here, if you wish also with some pictures. Such a swap report might encourage other collectors to try it as well. We are curious to hear from you. Please contact our webmaster for questions and submissions.
You can also ask libraries or bookstores if they would display bookmarks for World Bookmark Day. You could print some of the designs on this page, make posters of copies of some in your own collection or use bookmarks from the library or bookstore. There are many possibilities!
Just ask your local library what they make of a World Bookmark Day!
As far as we know, only few libraries have organised bookmark swaps yet, and in most cases the initiative came from collectors. However, libraries are generally interested in hosting events and thus they are likely to be receptive for the idea of a bookmark swap in their rooms. Offer to help in organizing the event and see what happens. It can be an exciting experience for you to discover other collectors in your area on this occasion. You can write us about a successful attempt, and we'll report about it here, if you wish also with some pictures. Such a swap report might encourage other collectors to try it as well. We are curious to hear from you. Please contact our webmaster for questions and submissions.
You can also ask libraries or bookstores if they would display bookmarks for World Bookmark Day. You could print some of the designs on this page, make posters of copies of some in your own collection or use bookmarks from the library or bookstore. There are many possibilities!
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The Bookmark Bookstore in Oakland, California, USA has kindly agreed to host a display for World Bookmark Day. We are working with them on the display and will feature the printable designs from this page and display some illustrations of different types of bookmarks, antique as well as recent. The store finds many bookmarks in books that are donated to them and always puts them in little buckets throughout the store for customers to take for free.
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6. DONATE TO PROMOTE THE WORLD BOOKMARK DAY
Your donations will be used to promote the World Bookmark Day. First of all we need funds to endow the prizes for the best article and for the best limerick with a prize money. Even $5 is a fantastic donation for this purpose. Please contact the webmaster to make a donation
If we get more donations as needed for the prizes, we'll use them to promote the World Bookmark Day with additional activities.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
Your donations will be used to promote the World Bookmark Day. First of all we need funds to endow the prizes for the best article and for the best limerick with a prize money. Even $5 is a fantastic donation for this purpose. Please contact the webmaster to make a donation
If we get more donations as needed for the prizes, we'll use them to promote the World Bookmark Day with additional activities.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
7. Join us as a sponsor if you are a person, company, or society with a relation to reading, books, and
bookmarks
We need funds to promote the activities associated with the World Bookmark Day. Sponsors can join us with a donation to this end. We also welcome other possibilities of cooperation with our sponsors. Sponsors will be portrayed on this page with their relation to reading, books and bookmarks, and with special activities initiated by them. For applications, please contact our webmaster.
bookmarks
We need funds to promote the activities associated with the World Bookmark Day. Sponsors can join us with a donation to this end. We also welcome other possibilities of cooperation with our sponsors. Sponsors will be portrayed on this page with their relation to reading, books and bookmarks, and with special activities initiated by them. For applications, please contact our webmaster.
Our Sponsors
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Further information about bookmarks and the World Bookmark Day
You may be surprised to hear that bookmarks accompany books for 2000 years already. This is a brand new information unveiled by the research work done by members of our community, the International Friends of Bookmarks (IFOB). Details are given in the report Earliest History of Bookmarks. Before this publication, it was thought that the earliest bookmarks were used in medieval ages in European monasteries.
There has been a discussion about pros and cons of launching a World Bookmark Day in our community. As a result, we started this project on 23 April 2016. Details can be found on our Blog: please click the category "World Bookmark Day"
You may be surprised to hear that bookmarks accompany books for 2000 years already. This is a brand new information unveiled by the research work done by members of our community, the International Friends of Bookmarks (IFOB). Details are given in the report Earliest History of Bookmarks. Before this publication, it was thought that the earliest bookmarks were used in medieval ages in European monasteries.
There has been a discussion about pros and cons of launching a World Bookmark Day in our community. As a result, we started this project on 23 April 2016. Details can be found on our Blog: please click the category "World Bookmark Day"
