Holly Litherland

How do you mark your page?

After becoming intrigued by all the different things i had found in the books at work i decided to gather responses to the question "How do you mark your page?". I felt the most efficient way to do this was to create a Facebook page, which can be viewed by everyone, automatically saves the responses and extends the question to a wider audience through people sharing the link with their friends.

At it's peak this page reached 583 people (30/05/2012 - 05/06/2012)
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How do you mark your page? (Facebook page)

References

After establishing my collection I decided to do some research to see if any one else had carried out similar projects.

I found two blogs which were based on collections similar to my own.

Brookline Booksmith, Find of the week Archive

Forgotten Bookmarks

I also bought a book called 'Forgotten Bookmarks, A Bookseller's Collection of Odd Things Lost Between The Pages' by Michael Popek.

Earlier in the year i did a presentation about Angie Butler (Pet Gallerie Press), a Bristol based artist book maker who visited us to give a talk about her work. Book Arts has been my favourite module and i loved Angie's work. I remembered her project called 'A Friendly Piece of Advice' Which incorporated beautiful origami bookmarks each with a hand written motto which were given out in a mobile library, each motto was written by someone in the village and given to someone else.

Pet Gallerie Press Blog

My Presentation on Angie Butler

I also researched the Univeristy of the West of England (UWE) Artist bookmark project.

UWE Bookmark project

My Collection

I love books and reading and I volunteer in a charity bookshop. When i was asked for a university project to produce a collection i decided that i would collect the bookmarks which are left behind in the books which people donate.

After carefully looking at my collection i decided to consider ways of categorizing them:

I considered shape and size...