Bookmark Collector

Here are some items I’ve collected from the news over the last couple of weeks:
Clean Air Bookmark Contest Winners
The St. Louis Public Library posted the winners of their Clean Air Bookmark Contest. This is the winning bookmark, submitted by Kiarry S. All the winning entries are posted at the following link and they’re pretty fun.
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Bookmarks [...]

Several months ago, Harriet went to an estate sale and bought these two bookmarks. From the nature of the other items for sale, it was clear that this was the home of a Jewish woman who had survived the holocaust, and so it was a particularly poignant set to bring home
Each of the metal bookmarks [...]

María Rosa from Spain has started a new blog named Punto de Papel in which she is posting her bookmark collection. The images she’s posted so far show a pretty impressive collection, and rather than select one of the beautiful bookmarks as the header for this post, I’m going to urge you to head over [...]

Here are some posts from collections that I saw this week:
SIXBUCKSADONKEY
Here’s the latest Bookmark Friday entry over at Sixbucksadonkey (I love that title). He’s titled the post “A LOVE Thing” and the caption on the bookmark is “I love books so much I wish I could just marry them”. There’s also an audio recording of [...]

Once again, the Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol is sponsoring their Bookmarks exhibition. This year it’s Bookmarks V. I posted about last year’s project and I’ll shamefully admit that I never got out to see any of the exhibit sites. This year I’m definitely getting [...]

Here are the bookmark entries from a variety of on-line bookmark collectors:
Bookmark Friday: eat your veggies
It’s a veggie theme over at Sixbucksadonkey.
Mmm, veggies.
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Cup and Saucer
I came across the Tea with Friends blog where Angela McRae posted about a recent bookmark acquisition. It’s such an interesting item that I thought I’d point it out. [...]

Continuing my collection of links focused on Bookmarks for Sale, here are the items I’ve come across this week.
Handmade Bookmarks: KathyysKrafts
KathyysKrafts has three different handmade bookmarks which came up for sale this week. The first is the Guinness bookmark which she made from a recycled Guinness carton.
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The second is the Blue Moon bookmark. There appear [...]

Here are a couple of interesting news items about bookmarks that I found recently.
Penn State Commemorative Bookmarks
Penn State is commemorating the contributions made by Coach Joe Paterno and his family to the Univeristy Libraries by issuing a series of seven bookmarks. They are referred to as a Collector’s Series. From the description on the Penn [...]

Gail Anderson-Dargatz is a writer who’s blog entry about her bookmark making past-time caught my attention. Her post is actually about how she is ending this hobby, but within that discussion is a general description of how she uses dead butterflies and other insects to create bookmarks.
She talks about how the process started as a [...]

Here’s another collection of links that I’ve come across recently. The focus of this set is bookmarks that are for sale. There are promotional bookmarks, wedding reception gifts, handmade/art bookmarks, and others that are just cool.
Cause Awareness
Gimmes.com (an internet based promotional materials supplier) has a new bookmark available which they are targeting to non-profit agencies. [...]