Welcome to our page WORLD BOOKMARK DAY (WOBODA)
Updated 21 November 2021; check back for updates
New: Printable bookmark designs!
New: Printable bookmark designs!
PRINTABLE BOOKMARKS- 8 | BOOKMARK RAFFLE-cancelled - WINNER: tbd
WOBO THE TRAVELING BOOKMARK - nn | LOCAL EVENTS: 1 from Lithuania
ASIM MANER AWARD WINNER: Don Baldwin | AND MORE!
WOBO THE TRAVELING BOOKMARK - nn | LOCAL EVENTS: 1 from Lithuania
ASIM MANER AWARD WINNER: Don Baldwin | AND MORE!
@liberiarium Heute ist der World Bookmark Day (WoBoDa)! Die International Friends of Booksmarks haben sich etwas ganz Besonderes ausgedacht: sie widmen den heutigen Tag dem Lesezeichen! Auf ihrer Website wird es deshalb heute Events, Awards und noch viel mehr geben. Auch ich habe dem Lesezeichen eine kleine Grußbotschaft geschickt - diese könnt ihr euch auf meinem YouTube-Kanal ansehen □
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See also examples from previous years are in the Woboda Gallery.
From paintings by Jane Schneider, Colorado, USA
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We are delighted to launch the FIFTH annual World Bookmark Day 25 February 2021 - WORLD BOOKMARK DAY (WOBODA) We celebrate the readers' little helper and the ever faithful companion of books for 2000 years. Do you like, collect or produce bookmarks? Join us to spread the word about this worldwide event! We continue to celebrate 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 2020. 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 have accompanied 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 2021
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 2021
www.ifobookmarks.org/woboda.
Include Your Name - Your status (collector, artist, designer) from (your country) - your web site or social media. You may also add this information to the design. Thank you!
World Bookmark Day (or just Woboda)
25 February 2021
www.ifobookmarks.org/woboda.
Include Your Name - Your status (collector, artist, designer) from (your country) - your web site or social media. You may also add this information to the design. Thank you!
Free Printable Bookmarks for the World Bookmark Day
How to use these bookmarks?
Download and print your favorite bookmark. Tip: Copy the image into a Word (or other word processing) document and copy it several times to fit the page. You can then print multiple copies onto card stock.
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: Jane Schneider, Colorado, USA;
Download and print your favorite bookmark. Tip: Copy the image into a Word (or other word processing) document and copy it several times to fit the page. You can then print multiple copies onto card stock.
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: Jane Schneider, Colorado, USA;
1. Jane Schneider, Elizabeth, Colorado, USA contributes four bookmarks with her artwork and four with scenes from Elbert, Colorado. Note: it will be easier to cut them out if you mark a border around them, especially the white areas.
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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.
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Carole Lemieux from Canada has made this charming bookmark, not for printing, but just to enjoy. She is helping promote Woboda by writing a column on International Friends of Bookmarks in her blogs like Blogger, Tumbr, Bloglovin, Facebook, Instagram,
Pinterest and TikTok which was posted on February 22nd with this bookmark. In addition, in Pinterest, she created a WOBODA folder in which you will find the bookmarks of the IFOB. (KLimage Inspiration). As she says, Fêtons le WOBODA !Thank you Carole! |
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2. SEND WOBO - THE WORLD TRAVELING BOOKMARK - ON A JOURNEY AND HELP HER
TO ACCOMPLISH HER MISSION
TO ACCOMPLISH HER MISSION
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On the left you see WOBO - the World Traveling Bookmark 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 2021. [Note that Wobo is now generic with no date and can be used any time.] 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! |
Print these three copies at the same time and cut apart.
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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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.
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.
Are you a designer, artist, or illustrator? Would you like to create a new design for Wobo? Contact our webmaster.
WOBO ON WORLD TOUR 2020-2021
Wobo the World Traveling Bookmark is going places with your help. She has been already spotted in: tbd
See pictures from her first tour in 2016 here.
Wobo the World Traveling Bookmark is going places with your help. She has been already spotted in: tbd
See pictures from her first tour in 2016 here.
3. JOIN OUR WOBODA CELEBRATION BOOKMARK RAFFLE
SPECIAL NOTE: Due to low participation and difficulties from the pandemic, we have cancelled this year's raffle. The donated bookmarks will be held for next year's raffle. Instead, consider some simple ways to celebrate such as:
- Print one of the bookmarks above and give to someone you know.
- Check our Workshop for ideas on making bookmarks.
- Send us a story about your favorite bookmark (ifobeditor@gmail.com)
You like and collect bookmarks? Here you can win a huge lot of bookmarks from all over the world!
For each 10 bookmarks you pledge to 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 20xx - 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 include a huge number of bookmarks, And they can be won by you!
Requirements:
1. Send us only photographs of the bookmarks you wish to contribute to participate in the raffle and the total number. The photographs do not have to show each individual bookmark but should be arranged to give a good idea of how many you will send to the winner.
2. It is fine to include a few duplicates, but try to find as many individual bookmarks as possible.
3. Include a brief description of the types of bookmarks (e.g., publishers, libraries, bookstores, die cut, art related, children's, etc.). And remember to tell us your lucky number for the raffle.
4. Send your photos and information to the IFOB editor at ifobeditor(at)gmail.com and include your postal mailing address.
Bookmarks photo entries which arrive after 25 February 2021 will not participate in the raffle.
The bookmarks pledged by the winner of the raffle will be sent to a second place winner so that you don't receive back your own contributions to the raffle.
See below for examples of ways to photograph your contributions:
SPECIAL NOTE: Due to low participation and difficulties from the pandemic, we have cancelled this year's raffle. The donated bookmarks will be held for next year's raffle. Instead, consider some simple ways to celebrate such as:
- Print one of the bookmarks above and give to someone you know.
- Check our Workshop for ideas on making bookmarks.
- Send us a story about your favorite bookmark (ifobeditor@gmail.com)
You like and collect bookmarks? Here you can win a huge lot of bookmarks from all over the world!
For each 10 bookmarks you pledge to 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 20xx - 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 include a huge number of bookmarks, And they can be won by you!
Requirements:
1. Send us only photographs of the bookmarks you wish to contribute to participate in the raffle and the total number. The photographs do not have to show each individual bookmark but should be arranged to give a good idea of how many you will send to the winner.
2. It is fine to include a few duplicates, but try to find as many individual bookmarks as possible.
3. Include a brief description of the types of bookmarks (e.g., publishers, libraries, bookstores, die cut, art related, children's, etc.). And remember to tell us your lucky number for the raffle.
4. Send your photos and information to the IFOB editor at ifobeditor(at)gmail.com and include your postal mailing address.
Bookmarks photo entries which arrive after 25 February 2021 will not participate in the raffle.
The bookmarks pledged by the winner of the raffle will be sent to a second place winner so that you don't receive back your own contributions to the raffle.
See below for examples of ways to photograph your contributions:
Example of how to photograph your bookmarks: stack them, fan them out
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Current status:
50 bookmarks are in the raffle pot as of 26 December 2020 NOTE: Due to cancellation of this year's raffle, these donations will be saved for next year. Donations:
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Miscellaneous (bookstores, tasseled)
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Adult books
Publishers
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Teen/ young adults books
Winner chooses 30 from these five groups.
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Children's books
Libraries
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Number of participants: nn
Number of bookmarks contributed by participants: nnn
Number of raffle tickets: nn
Your chances are still very high to win this raffle!
Send your bookmarks photo to join and win the giant heap of bookmarks in the raffle pot!
The list of participants and their tickets:
1. [name], [country], nn bookmarks (nn tickets, no. n-n) (sent to winner dd mm)
Total number of bookmarks: 50 ; Total number of tickets: nn ; Total of lucky numbers: nnn
Number of bookmarks contributed by participants: nnn
Number of raffle tickets: nn
Your chances are still very high to win this raffle!
Send your bookmarks photo to join and win the giant heap of bookmarks in the raffle pot!
The list of participants and their tickets:
1. [name], [country], nn bookmarks (nn tickets, no. n-n) (sent to winner dd mm)
Total number of bookmarks: 50 ; Total number of tickets: nn ; Total of lucky numbers: nnn
🎁🎁🎁 The winning ticket number is tbd! - This ticket belongs to the winner of the World Bookmark Day Raffle 2021 🎁🎁🎁
The winner is tbd . Congratulations!
The winner is tbd . Congratulations!
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. [list any donations for second place]. The second winner is the participant next to the winner, as declared before.. This means:
🎁 The Second Place Winner of the Raffle is tbd! 🎁
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 manipulating it by anybody. The lot is drawn by the participants themselves so to speak! All new participants should send along a photograph 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 are covered by you, and we are not liable if your bookmarks get lost in the mail. We recommend that you send them with a record or tracking of the shipment.
Shipping address for your bookmarks: IFOB Raffle, [winner to be announced 25 February 2021]
Remember to enclose your name and email address when you send your bookmarks.
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 manipulating it by anybody. The lot is drawn by the participants themselves so to speak! All new participants should send along a photograph 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 are covered by you, and we are not liable if your bookmarks get lost in the mail. We recommend that you send them with a record or tracking of the shipment.
Shipping address for your bookmarks: IFOB Raffle, [winner to be announced 25 February 2021]
Remember to enclose your name and email address when you send your bookmarks.
RAFFLE NEWS
We don't know how many bookmarks there will be in the raffle pot at the end. However, we will announce the incoming bookmarks with a picture each time and the total number of bookmarks pledged. 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.
Photos, number of bookmarks, and participants will be listed here by date entered.
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: ifobeditor(at)gmail.com.
Send your pics to: ifobeditor(at)gmail.com.
5. LOCAL EVENTS: Organize a Display and/or Bookmark Swap in Your Local Library or Bookstore
Just ask your local library to help celebrate 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 or a display 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!
Another option: Try to get an article published in a local magazine or newspaper.
Vilija Jocienė sends this message for World Bookmark Day: "In the Kaunas branch of K. Praniauskaitė VB, Telšiai district (Lithuania), this day is always celebrated, no exception this year, although the library does not work at the usual rhythm. A small exhibition of bookmarks was prepared here today, and to mark this day, the symbol was a “sown” bookmark with seeds. We hope to grow fluffy reading, flower and bookmark seedlings." Thank you Vilija! 25 February 2021
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6. ASIM MANER AWARD FOR PROMOTING BOOKMARKS
This award, named in honor of our founder, Asim Maner, recognizes the person who has done an outstanding job of promoting bookmarks, either for World Bookmark Day or in general activities. Tell us what you have done, send photos of the activities, and describe the impact it has had, in your opinion. You may also submit comments from other people who are familiar with your work. The winner will be chosen by the IFOB co-editors and possibly last year's winner of the Woboda raffle. Submit your entry by February 20, 2021 to the webmaster. The winner will receive:
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The winner is Don Baldwin!
This year for a number of reasons, we didn't make an award to a current member. Instead, we decided to make a posthumous award to longtime collector and bookmark enthusiast, Don Baldwin. The certificate was sent to his daughters as well as the University of Iowa where his collection resides. Read more about why the award was made to this special person.
Here is the blog post about Don.
This year for a number of reasons, we didn't make an award to a current member. Instead, we decided to make a posthumous award to longtime collector and bookmark enthusiast, Don Baldwin. The certificate was sent to his daughters as well as the University of Iowa where his collection resides. Read more about why the award was made to this special person.
Here is the blog post about Don.
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7. DONATE TO PROMOTE THE WORLD BOOKMARK DAY
Your donations of prizes, bookmarks for the raffle, or money will be used to promote the World Bookmark Day. We would like to support the Asim Maner award for promoting bookmarks and any future contests. There are also mailing fees for the raffle and printing fees for printing downloadable bookmarks. Even $5 is a fantastic donation for this purpose. Please use the donate button, or contact the webmaster to donate prizes or bookmarks. 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! |
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8. Join us as a sponsor if you are a person, company, or society with a relation to reading, books, and
bookmarks
Sponsors can join us with a donation of funds to promote World Bookmark Day activities. We also welcome other possibilities of cooperation with our sponsors, including donation of bookmarks or other prizes. Sponsors will be portrayed on this page with their relation to reading, books and bookmarks, and with special activities initiated by them. For more information, please contact our webmaster.
bookmarks
Sponsors can join us with a donation of funds to promote World Bookmark Day activities. We also welcome other possibilities of cooperation with our sponsors, including donation of bookmarks or other prizes. Sponsors will be portrayed on this page with their relation to reading, books and bookmarks, and with special activities initiated by them. For more information, please contact our webmaster.
Our Sponsors
SPONSOR NAME
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Further information about bookmarks and the World Bookmark Day
You may be surprised to hear that bookmarks have accompanied books for 2000 years. This is 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 was 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 of Woboda activities can be found on our Blog: please click the category "World Bookmark Day"
You may be surprised to hear that bookmarks have accompanied books for 2000 years. This is 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 was 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 of Woboda activities can be found on our Blog: please click the category "World Bookmark Day"
