Read all about the 2023 David Ruggles Prize winners here: https://rugglesprize.org/winners
As you may know, IOBA is now an affiliate of the Bibliographic Association of America, a wonderful organization promoting bibliography...
https://www.ioba.org/post/bibliographic-association-of-america-events
I am pleased to announce the 2023 cohort of the CABS-Minnesota Diverse Voices Fellowship: Lise Childers of Native Books, Zakiya Collier...
https://www.ioba.org/post/cabs-minnesota-diverse-voices-fellows
Rare book seller and high school teacher Jeff Mezzocchi has spent the past 10 years compiling a Crime and Punishment “bookshelf”—a...
https://www.ioba.org/post/a-chat-with-jeff-mezzocchi-about-his-crime-and-punishment-bookshelf
THE INDEPENDENT ONLINE BOOKSELLERS’ ASSOCIATION AIMS TO COMBINE TRADITIONAL BOOKSELLING BEST PRACTICES WITH THE OPPORTUNITIES OF ONLINE...
https://www.ioba.org/post/caveat-emptor-or-some-thoughts-on-ethics-and-online-book-buying
Apply for the 2023 CABS Diverse Voices Fellowship on used/rare bookselling! Activities include a two-day field school in Atlanta; a...
The IOBA is offering up to six (6) scholarships for continuing education opportunities in 2022! Specifically, IOBA is offering: 3...
March 21, 2022 By Greg Gibson Back in the old days, whether you were a catalog dealer or a brick & mortar seller, you probably worked...
https://www.ioba.org/post/from-rags-to-riches-to-rags-again-to-riches-maybe
Discover 9 rare bookselling businesses owned by women. These...
https://www.ioba.org/post/ioba-celebrates-women-s-history-month
These are books created without the authorization of the original author and/or publisher.
https://www.ioba.org/post/comparing-an-american-first-edition-to-the-taiwan-pirate-edition
Table of Contents Competitive Altruism in Book Selling (CABS) IOBA Scholarship Contest Description 2016 CABS Report: Paul Shelley,...
The Summer 2016 issue of The Standard features several pieces on the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), including an essay on the...
https://www.ioba.org/post/competitive-altruism-in-book-selling-cabs
Why does IOBA offer scholarships to seminars and classes for our members? Because IOBA wants all its member booksellers to be the best...
https://www.ioba.org/post/ioba-scholarship-contest-description
Firstly, let me express again my thanks to the IOBA scholarship committee and to the membership at large for their support with the...
https://www.ioba.org/post/2016-cabs-report-paul-shelley-churchill-book-collector
Ok, clever titling aside, (and the humor doesn’t get any better I’m afraid), I wanted to take a moment to share what I got out of CABS....
https://www.ioba.org/post/cabs-report-mike-brenner-brenner-books
As far as the faculty is concerned, we could not have been more fortunate to share in the wisdom and scholarship of the assembled. The...
https://www.ioba.org/post/cabs-report-edward-markiewicz-montgomery-rare-books-manuscripts
I would like to take a moment to talk about antiquarian book fairs: what they are; who attends them; where they have been and where they...
https://www.ioba.org/post/on-the-importance-of-antiquarian-book-fairs
As told by Blake to Colleen Barrett, Cataloguer Blake joined the staff of the Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts Company (PRB&M), an...
https://www.ioba.org/post/shop-cat-philadelphia-rare-books-manuscripts-company
Table of Contents From the Editor: Tim Doyle From the Incoming IOBA President: Joan White Book Blogging: Don’t Do What I Do: Rachel...
Welcome to the Spring 2016 issue of The Standard, the journal of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). One month ago,...