Dear Friends,
This may interest some of you. Please excuse cross-postings.
Cordially,
Laurence McGilvery
The International League of Antiquarian
Booksellers (ILAB) will celebrate its 57th
birthday by hosting a “virtual celebration of the
book" online at www.ilab.org, May 19 - 22, 2004.
The four day event will include a virtual
auction, book fair, lectures, appraisals, and a
“Biblio Quiz" where entrants can win prizes by
testing their book knowledge. ILAB will also
launch new features on its website, including
educational resources for book collectors and
highlighting its powerful new search engine which
searches a database of over 3 million books,
maps, prints and autographs from nearly 2000
booksellers from all over the world.
The celebratory event will kick off Wednesday,
May 19, 2004, at 18:00 (CET) [noon (EDT), 9:00
a.m. (PDT)] - the site of ILAB's first conference
in 1947 - with a virtual auction to benefit the
U.S. Fund for Unicef, a non-profit organization
helping children in need around the world, and
will continue through May 22nd. Donated by ILAB
booksellers, books and prints will be up for
auction at www.ilab.org during the four day event.
Thousands of antiquarian books, prints, maps and
autographs will be available for purchase from
trusted ILAB booksellers through the Virtual Book
Fair, beginning at 18:00 (CET) [noon (EDT), 9:00
a.m. (PDT)] on Thursday, May 20th and running
through Saturday, May 22nd, at 23:00 (CET) [5:00
p.m. (EDT), 2:00 p.m. (PDT)]. Visitors to the
book fair at www.ilab.org can also test their
book knowledge and compete for prizes such as
gift certificates during the Biblio Quiz on May
22nd.
Friday, May 21st, brings Education Day to
www.ilab.org. Guests will find a large resource
of information related to book collecting,
libraries, and ILAB, as well as the opportunity
to post their own favorite book related website
links.
The virtual Celebration of the Book concludes
Saturday, May 22nd, with Appraisal Day. ILAB
booksellers will be available for live online
appraisals from 4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., Amsterdam
time [10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. (EDT), 7:00 a.m. -
11:00 a.m. (PDT)].
The International League of Antiquarian
Booksellers, an organization of national
associations of antiquarian booksellers around
the world, speaks for twenty nations and nearly
two thousand leading booksellers bound by a code
of ethics to promote the integrity and
professionalism of the antiquarian book trade
worldwide.
--
Laurence McGilvery
Post Office Box 852
La Jolla, California 92038-0852, USA
(858) 454-4443 or 456-6623
www.mcgilvery.com
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