19th International Meeting of Collectors of Zoo Memorabilia and Literature

09-08-2008

Could you provide a link to this site, sounds interesting.

09-08-2008

Thanks for the website compliments ... A bit embarrassed for that I haven't updated it more or less for two years, but now that I'm about to finish my education soon (knock on wood) and will be doing less travelling for at least the next year, I will hopefully have the income and time to inject into this great old hobby of mine

09-08-2008

The website is: Zoo Memorabilia

Again, no update since March 2007, but soon I will have time and income to inject life into this old hobby. I am hoping to totally change the layout of the website, but it will depend on my skills in web design. We will see. But if you are trying to find info about UK or US guidebooks, Zoo History (maintained by Paul Murphy, Rob Vaughan and co) is really much better for the details. All that my site has above theirs is the graphics

10-08-2008

Dear All Zoo-Enthusiasts !
I am really very embarassed to be so late in joining you at "zoobeat forum" but am always busy with some other activities, not neccessairly those conected with zoos.
Below please find some comments and explanation.

First come the full list of all the meetings of collectors of zoo-litearture and memorabilia.

I 26-27.05.1990 Hannover
II 19-20.05.1991 Köln
III 23-24.05.1992 Poznan
IV 11-12.09.1993 Magdeburg
V 10-11.09.1994 Berlin(Zoo)
VI 9-10.09.1995 Rotterdam
VII 7-8.09.1996 Frankfurt a.M.
VIII 13-14.09.1997 Antwerpen
IX 12-13.09.1998 Hamburg
X 18-19.09.1999 Hannover
XI 8-9.09.2000 Münster
XII 15-16.09.2001 London
XIII 7-8.09.2002 Wuppertal
XIV 6-7.09.2003 Wien
XV 11-12.09.2004 Arnhem
XVI 3-4.09.2005 Berlin(Tierpark)
XVII 1-2.09.2006 München
XVIII 1-2.09.2007 Hamburg
XIX 6-7.09.2008 Wroclaw
XX 2009 - Amneville (France)??????
As you see very likely next meeting wil not be in Paradisio (Belgium) but in Amneville Zoo in France. This meeting will be organized by our young French zoo-enthusiast and collector Jonas Livet. Actually you may want also to visit his web site at Les zoos dans le monde - where, inter alia, you will find a full description of his extensive zoo-guide collection including cover pictures.
The other source of reference, as it was pointed out by Baldur, is the UK website zoohistory whwre you can find a full list of UK zoo/aquarium guides and recently also those of USA and Canada.
I do not think that such a meeting will be possible in USA or Canada. After more then 40 years of gathering different zoo materials I know (well, I am in touch) one collector on Canada and one in USA. That's it. I hope so much one day they will be able to attend one of our meetings here in Europe.

10-08-2008

Amneville will be an exciting destination - it is a great zoo - although isn't the pattern one year in germany, the next not?

As an English person who has been to most of these meetings since 1994, I would have to disagree with the earlier comment suggesting that Brits would want the meeting in Britain, and ''Éuropean" in Europe. The meeting is a great chance to get away from Britain and its zoos, to go to other more exciting destinations. The one occasion when it was in England - at London, in 2001 - was the worst ,meeting yet (through no fault at all of tis organiser, but rather because the hosts were completely passive and uninterested).

17-08-2008

[quote=sooty mangabey;65991]Amneville will be an exciting destination - it is a great zoo - although isn't the pattern one year in germany, the next not?

There has never been such official pattern that one year in Germany another not in Germany and so on. Please see the list of all the meetings. But according to the very recent information the meeting in 2009 will not be in Amneville but somewhere in Germany. It will be our 20th meeeting -so quite a nice anniversary - isn't it? And the majority of Germ,ans collectors will want to celebrate this anniversary in Germany.

17-08-2008

There was never any plan of mine to 'accuse' any nationality of not willing to cross its boarders. It just so happens that, before London 2001, there were really never more than 4-5 UK people attending, as far as I understand from others, because my first time was London, but that meeting must have been the inspiration, because nowadays UK attendants are, I'm sure, never less than 10 and perhaps close to 15 at times, especially when the meeting is held in cities cheap and easy to access, like Berlin and Hamburg. As Leszek said before, there is no rule, pattern, or whatever you like to call it, of holding it in Germany, but, having said that, that a) 50-60% of the attendants have usually been German and b) decision on the next location are by voting, it comes as logic that Germany wins most often. As the only Icelandic attendant (and that will not change soon) I could never win the meeting over to Reykjavik, not that I ever attempted to try in the first place, because it gives me a reason to venture over to Europe and see some zoos

14-09-2008

Dear All,
The 19th International Meeting of the Collectors of Zoo Literature and Memorabilia is over. There were on the list 43 participants from 10 countries (Belgium, Czech Rep., France, Germany, Holland, Iceland, Poland, Switzerland, UK and USA) so not as much as the last year in Hamburg (circa 100). The reason was that some of German collectors did not come because they apparently felt discriminated as I used to send all information exclusively in English. But really I do not worry about that. I said I prefer quality over the quantity.
Anyhow you may already heard that our honour guest was Ken Kawata from USA. He spent with us some more days but eventually he took active part in the meeting as well. He dontaed very unusuall stuff (Japanese and American alike) for the auction. The total income from the auction is nearly 800.00 Euro and will be soon donated to EAZA Amphibian Campaign.
The very good information is that as the place for the next meeting in 2009 the zoo in Amneville (France) was proposed and accepted.
Best regards to you all, L.S.

16-09-2008

It was a great meeting, I enjoyed it really, as like as I enjoyed the beautyful Wroclaw Zoo.

I've got a lot new and old guides and had a lot of interstesting talks with nice and interesting people.

Thank you for the brilliant organisation.