Described by Wikipedia as "Hi Tech Hide and Seek", Geocaching does sound like fun. Though, again according to Wikipedia, you do need to be careful where you locate the cache lest you be mistaken for a drug dealer, bank robber, serial killer or paedophile. Best not to locate your cache underneath bridges, near banks, courts of law, schools, cemetaries...you get the drift. I was surprised that it had been around for so long, i.e 10 years.
I asked Ms. Google about public libraries and geocaching and she came up with a few interesting ideas.
The Shoshone Public Library in Idahoe use it this way, http://www.idaholibraries.org/idlibrarian/index.php/idaho-librarian/article/view/25/81
While Chicago Public Library does this http://spotlight.macfound.org/featured-stories/entry/chicago-public-library-helps-teens-find-history
and Middletown Public Library ran a geocaching clinic, http://geocaching.coollibrarian.com/
Maybe we can use some of these ideas as a kick off point for a geocaching event for Library & Information Week??!!
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