I have a library box (in Enfield, CT). We met with the librarian, who
worked with her Director to get permission for us to place the box. We then did a
presentation on letterboxing at the library which drew in some interest.

The box is located close to the check-out desk but is not meant to be
overseen by the librarians. We check on it occasionally, as we do with all of our
boxes.


Susan


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I've seen ones that are in hollowed out books. Someone buys and old
used hardback book and creates a box out of it. If permission is
given it's given a library # and filed on the appropriate shelf.
Often the boxes are to recognize something about that specific book
or the author.

Kim
Compass Points


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>
> I have a library box (in Enfield, CT). We met with the librarian,
who
> worked with her Director to get permission for us to place the
box. We then did a
> presentation on letterboxing at the library which drew in some
interest.
>
> The box is located close to the check-out desk but is not meant to
be
> overseen by the librarians. We check on it occasionally, as we do
with all of our
> boxes.
>
>
> Susan
>
>
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>

Hi Gretchen,
There is a box in the library of one of our local colleges in the non-fiction section. I haven't had time to get that box (on my list for next week).
Here's the link for the mystery box:
http://www.letterboxing.org/BoxView.php?boxnum=11829&boxname=The_Alumni_Letterbox

Brenda in Baltimore
"Mud Puppies"

Gretchen Caldwell wrote:
My mother-in-law is a librarian out in very Western MA. She thinks
letterboxing is neat and would love to have a letterbox in her library (a
very small town). How are library boxes typically "done" ? I'm thinking
that I'd like it to be something that she could easily see/observe from her
area, but that once she's gone from the library (she'll probably retire in a
few years), that I'd like the box to stay and not be removed by future
librarians (who may not be as enthralled with LB'ing).


Thoughts??



Thanks!! :-)



Boston Rott





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At 10:52 AM 3/29/2006, you wrote:
>My mother-in-law is a librarian out in very Western MA. She thinks
>letterboxing is neat and would love to have a letterbox in her library (a
>very small town). How are library boxes typically "done" ? I'm thinking
>that I'd like it to be something that she could easily see/observe from her
>area, but that once she's gone from the library (she'll probably retire in a
>few years), that I'd like the box to stay and not be removed by future
>librarians (who may not be as enthralled with LB'ing).

There have been many library boxes planted. They're usually planted
with the permission of the librarians and made out of a hollowed book
(Google "altered books" or "hollowed book" for instructions and
ideas). A neat touch is to locate it in the reference section with
the real Dewey Decimal or LOC number on the spine for a book on
letterboxing (and might even have a card in the card catalog). I
found one that was a hollowed out old book in a slipcase, which made
it easier for the whole thing to be kept together.

SD


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