Hello. We have a permanent Story Book Trail at a local park. We have 18 posts along the .04 mile trail. While I'm not the one who initially put it together, so I don't have anything about purchasing to share, I can help with other information. We put in a new book every month from April to November. I try to choose books by February and order all the books at once for the entire year. I only consider picture books that have been published within the last two years, due to books going in and out of print so quickly. The books also have to meet a certain page requirement, about 32 pages (16 two-page spreads), with some wiggle-room. Another staffer puts the books together for me; but I did it myself during Covid, so I can tell you what I did: size poster board pieces to fit the measurements of the post frames at the park, get two copies of the book (since book pages are double-sided), cut out pages with an exacto knife, tape book pages onto poster with double-sided tape, and laminate. I also have a welcome and closing sign for each book, which I write the text for and is put together by the Graphic Designer at our library. We then print these signs at the library using a very large printer. When I go to the park, here's what I do: I stop at each post, take the old poster from the previous book out of the frame, clean the frame off, clean the plexiglass that goes over the poster, and then insert the new poster. Then I put the plexiglass on top and move onto the next post. You can find information about our Story Book Trail at https://www.baldwinlib.org/youth/. I know that's a lot of details, so email me at Caroline.Salucci@baldwinlib.org if you have questions. Good luck! Caroline Caroline Salucci Youth Services Librarian Baldwin Public Library On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 11:59 PM <michlib-l-request@liblists.org> wrote:
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