Bulletin Board: Book Share Take a Book

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Bulletin Board Book ShareTake a BookLeave a
BookSubmitted by Nicholas Turner, Eastern
Washington University

• I just put up a new bulletin board thats been
  pretty successful. I call it Take a Book, Leave a
  Book. Theres a series of cardboard pockets that
  you can fit small-to-medium sized books into. I
  put some of my favorite books in most of them,
  and left a few empty. Residents were free to come
  and take books, with no pressure to return them
  within a certain time frame, or return them at
  all. The only request was for them to contribute
  to the wall with some of their favorite books.
  Ive attached the instructions I posted with the
  board and some pictures of how it looked
  initially.
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• Ive run into a couple of difficulties with this
  bulletin board I think other people should be
  aware of.
• Books can be expensive, I put in books I found at
  used book stores, and probably cost me 50 for
  around 15 books (I held some back to add later if
  the wall got a little barren). Consider getting
  books at yard sales/library sales/garage sales
  over the summer).
• I started with colorful paper pockets, but those
  didnt hold up and I had to replace them with
  soda pop boxes held up with staples and hot glue.
  
• Most residents dont bring extra copies of their
  favorite books to school to give away. I put my
  board up a couple of weeks before Spring break
  and am leaving it until the end of April so that
  residents will have the opportunity to go home to
  pick up books to add to it.
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• Idea You could mix this idea up by instead
  having it be for mix-tapes (or CDs). Residents
  could cut their own mixes to put on a bulletin
  board and share their tastes in music. The
  biggest advantage of this is that residents are
  more likely to have a music collection on their
  computers they can burn to disc at any time and
  add.
• Idea Over the summer you could go to garage
  sales and get tons of books or CDs at low cost.

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Directions for Board Print and post on your
board
Take a Book, Leave a Book The idea of this
bulletin is to share our favorite literary
treasures. Feel free to take any book from the
board with no obligation to return it. Read it at
your leisure, keep it, pass it on, return it to
the board, whatever. Please contribute back to
the board with one of your personal favorite
books, with no expectation that youll get it
back. Use the empty pockets to share a book with
others. What this is not A place to ditch books
you had to buy for class and arent worth
selling. Please only put in books you would
personally recommend.
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