Welcome to the Seguin Public Library!
Our operating hours are
Sunday 1pm-5pm
Monday-Thursday 9am-8pm
Friday 9am-6pm
Saturday 9am-5pm
Cache is not at posted coordinates! The cache is located inside the library.
313 W. Nolte
Seguin, TX 78155
PLEASE FOLLOW THESE RULES FOR THE LIBRARY CACHE!
- If you choose to leave swag, please remember to keep it family friendly. Remember, only trade what you would also like to find in a cache! PLEASE DO NOT place food or scented items as these attract animals or rot. Do not leave knives, lighters, matches, illegal substances, cigarettes, and other items you would not have a child handle.
- Do not remove multiple books or look through multiple books to find the cache. The hint will show you the way!
- Please put the cache back exactly as found, don't forget that the Dewey Decimal System is in place!
About The Seguin Public Library
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The Seguin Public Library provides books and materials based on local demand, general reference information and assistance, opportunities for lifelong learning, and access to local history, cultural and genealogy resources to all citizens of Seguin and Guadalupe County.
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| Brief History: |
- The library has always been of great importance in Seguin.
- The first Seguin Library was located at the Municipal Building on North Camp. In 1930, during the depression, Mayor Max Starcke gave permission to place a bookcase "in a city office for a lending library."
- Later on, when the new Municipal Building was being built a request was made that a room be set aside for the library. The facilities for the community's first library were as humble as the founding of Seguin. "The room was a 14 1/2 by 21 foot room in the Municipal building.
- In 1964 a contract was awarded to construct the Seguin-Guadalupe County Library on the donated Bauer land.
- Within 20 years the library needed to be expanded. Construction and renovation began in the fall of 1985 and was completed in July 1986. The size of the library was increased to 15,000 square feet.
- On November 5, 2013 Seguin voter's approved Proposition #1 of the City of Seguin Bond Elections. The proposition called for $14.8 million in bonds to cover estimated costs for property, construction, collection materials, furniture and signage, technology and computers for a new library.
- The groundbreaking ceremony was on April 23, 2015 at the new location 313 West Nolte Street.
- The new library opened on September 8, 2016. The new library is over 43,000 square feet.
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Geocaching rules and tips
- Sign both the logbook and log your find online to get your smiley. Geocache owners love reading about your experience.
- If you take a trinket (swag) from the geocache, leave something of equal or greater value, making sure it's family friendly. PLEASE DO NOT place food or scented items as these attract animals or rot. Do not leave knives, lighters, matches, illegal substances, cigarettes, and other items you wouldn't have a child handle.
- Be mindful of non-geocaching onlookers (muggles). Curious people have been known to take or damage geocaches.
These are the most basic rules. Please Check out geocaching.com for many more great tips!
The history of Geocaching HQ
With the flip of a switch...
On May 2, 2000, at approximately midnight Greenwich Mean Time, the great blue switch* controlling selective availability was flipped. Twenty-four satellites around the globe processed their new orders, and the accuracy of GPS technology improved tenfold. Now, said the White House, anyone could "precisely pinpoint their location or the location of items (such as game) left behind for later recovery." How right they were.
London, Paris, New York, Beavercreek?
For GPS enthusiasts, this was cause for celebration. Internet newsgroups suddenly teemed with ideas about how the technology could be used.
One such enthusiast, computer consultant Dave Ulmer, wanted to test the accuracy by hiding a navigational target in the woods. He called the idea the "Great American GPS Stash Hunt" and posted it in an internet GPS users' group. The idea was simple: Hide a container in the woods and note the coordinates with a GPS unit. The finder would then have to locate the container using only his or her GPS receiver. The rules for the finder were simple: "Take some stuff, leave some stuff."
On May 3, 2000, Ulmer placed a black bucket in the woods of Beavercreek, Oregon, near Portland. Along with a logbook and pencil, he left various prize items including videos, books, software, and a slingshot. He shared the waypoint of his "stash" with the online community on sci.geo.satellite-nav:
N 45° 17.460 W 122° 24.800
Within three days, two different readers learned of the stash via the Internet, used their own GPS receivers to find the container, and shared their experiences online. Throughout the next week, others began hiding their own containers worldwide and posting the coordinates. Like many new and innovative ideas on the Internet, the concept spread quickly - but this one required leaving your computer to participate.
Along with a logbook and pencil, the first geocache contained various items including videos, books, software, a slingshot, and a can of beans.
Within the first month, Mike Teague, the first person to find Ulmer's stash, began gathering the online posts of coordinates around the world and documenting them on his personal home page. The "GPS Stash Hunt" mailing list was created to discuss the emerging activity. Names were even tossed about to replace the name "stash" due to the negative connotations of that name. One such name was "geocaching."
The origins of geocaching
Geocaching, a term first coined by Matt Stum on the "GPS Stash Hunt" mailing list on May 30, 2000, was the joining of two familiar words. The prefix geo, for Earth, was used to describe the global nature of the activity, but also for its use in familiar topics in GPS such as geography.
Caching, from the word cache, has two different meanings appropriate for the activity. A French word invented in 1797, the original definition referred to a hiding place someone would use to temporarily store items. The word cache stirs up visions of pioneers, gold miners, and even pirates. Today the word is still used by news media to describe hidden weapons locations.
The second use of cache has more recently been used in technology. Memory cache is computer storage that is used to quickly retrieve frequently used information. Your web browser, for example, stores images so you don't have to retrieve the same image every time you visit similar pages.
The combination of Earth, hiding, and technology made geocaching an excellent term for the activity. However, the "GPS Stash Hunt" was the original and most widely used term until Mike Teague passed the torch to Jeremy Irish in September 2000.
I hope you have enjoyed this geocache!