Welcome to our page WORLD BOOKMARK DAY (WOBODA)
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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 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. 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 - 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.
Your Name - Your status (collector, artist, designer) from (your country) - your web site or social media
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 - 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.
Your Name - Your status (collector, artist, designer) from (your country) - your web site or social media
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Woboda bookmark by Mary V. Marsh
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Woboda bookmark by Mary V. Marsh
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Woboda bookmark by Mary V. Marsh
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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"
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. |
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Below are some examples from last year. Submit your new designs for 2018!
Attention: Don't click on the images for downloading (you get a small image in this case). Instead, click on the link "Download File"
Woboda bookmark by Regina Maciulyte
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Woboda bookmark by Umberto Brunelleschi
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Woboda bookmark by Viktor Koch
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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"
Wolves Bookmark by Christi du Toit
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Woboda Bookmark by Asim Maner
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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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Attention: Don't click on the image for downloading (you get a small image in this case). Instead, click on the link "Download File"
On the left you see WOBO - the World Traveling Bookmark [NOTE: We need a designer to update the date on Wobo. Can you help?] 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, he'll put your answers on this page. Thank you. | ||
WOBO ON WORLD TOUR 2017
Wobo the World Traveling Bookmark is going places with your help. She has been already spotted in:
[New Places to Come Soon]
See all the pictures here.
Wobo the World Traveling Bookmark is going places with your help. She has been already spotted in:
[New Places to Come Soon]
See all the pictures here.
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Wobo on the Nang Thong Beach, Khao Lak, Thailand, 3July2016, picture by suma
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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:
xx bookmarks are in the raffle pot as of dd mmm 2017
Donations:
xx bookmarks donated by
Number of participants:
Number of raffle tickets
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. Name (number of tickets, no 1)
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.
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The raffle pot is filled with over xx bookmarks at the start: you can see some of them on the picture to the left. 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. |
RAFFLE NEWS
Here are a couple of examples of contributions from WOBODA 2017 to give you an idea of what might appear in the raffle. This section will be updated as bookmarks arrive so check back often.
A collection of 23 bookmarks donated by Meg Brown, 22 February 2017
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Elly van der Horst donated a set of 6 Johan Cruyff bookmarks, raffle pot at 1312.
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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: info@ifobookmarks.org. Here are some examples from last year.
Send your pics to: info@ifobookmarks.org. 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 BOOKMARK SWAP IN YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY
Just ask your local library what they make of a Bookmark Swap 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.
Just ask your local library what they make of a Bookmark Swap 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.
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. 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. Thank you for your support!
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"
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INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS OF BOOKMARKS (IFOB)
www.ifobookmarks.org I facebook.com/bookmarksfriends | ifobeditor@gmail.com
www.ifobookmarks.org I facebook.com/bookmarksfriends | ifobeditor@gmail.com