Bookmark Collector

Holy cow! Now, even bookmarks have been recalled due to the Chinese lead paint problems.
On October 3, 2007, Antioch Publishing voluntarily recalled several series of their bookmarks as well as a journal product line due to excessive levels of lead in the paint. The product lines are: Beads of Wisdom® Bookmarks; Deluxe Cool Clip™ [...]

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 [...]

Over at BiblioBuffet, I had the novel experience of being interviewed by Lauren. It was a great interview and her questions led me to some interesting introspection as well as given me ideas for several new posts.
She’s had a good response from her readers, and that’s led me to wonder if there are some interests [...]

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 [...]

This week I found out about two different projects that are using bookmarks to raise funds. One project is for a library in the U.S., and the other is for a regional arts council in Canada.
DeSoto Texas Public Library and Their Chamber of Commerce
The DeSoto Public Library is putting on a Make a Mark Campaign [...]

This will be a different type of post, but I feel compelled to write about this as a caution to others who look for bookmark related web-sites.
I have a Google search set up for notices about bookmarks in the news or mentioned in blogs. I probably get a hit once every other day or so [...]

This morning, Harriet and I are departing on vacation for 3 weeks. We will be in Malaysia, and well see what bookmarks we find.
I’ll return with another post just after Thanksgiving. Take care.

That series of articles by Deanna Dahlsad continues to be really interesting. In the latest entry, Curator of Your Own Museum: Part II, she discusses defining the purpose of your collection. Her point is that a museum curator asks and answers a set of questions that define the scope, focus, and goals of the collection. [...]

I just wanted to mention why I’ve been gone for awhile. Last Tuesday morning (3:00 am) we had a very odd power surge (it involves a slow growing palm tree and an odd sequence of events). That resulted in all of our computers blowing out, along with a variety of electronic devices. It’s odd how [...]