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A post Little Darwin ran about the art treasures, including some of the bookplates in the superb Special Collections section at the Eddie Koiki Mabo Library , James Cook University , Townsville , was picked up by the New Australian Bookplate Society.
As a result, Special Collections has been asked to write an article about the bookplates in its extensive , interesting art section .
The Society was informally launched at a bookplate exhibition held at Stop Laughing This is Serious Gallery, Blackheath, in the NSW Blue Mountains, in October 2005.
It was attended by artists and other lovers of bookplates. A meeting was held a year later at the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Sydney, to officially form the Society .
The purpose of the Society is to raise awareness of the art of bookplates among printmakers, collectors and the general public. At present there are approximately 80 personal and institutional members distributed in almost all Australian states as well as New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.
It has a webpage and is on Facebook and Instagram.