popsie@flickr posts this and says "I was inspired by an article about teh artist Chris Cobb who created an installation in a San Francisco bookshop by arranging all the books by colour".
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07 July 2006
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A Chris Cobb interview on McSweeney's is here: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/events/chriscobb2.html
Posted by: Ed Vielmetti | 07 July 2006 at 05:32 PM
We did this with our New Book Shelves in January 2005. The staff had great fun doing it, with discussions about color and what to do with multicolored spines. But we kept it up for just one day. Most people didn't notice, and some that did were annoyed by the arrangement -- about 1 in 10, we estimated. Some patrons did love it. One said she never would have found one book she enjoyed except that it was in the White section that had caught her eye. Oh, the challenges of library marketing.
Posted by: Jeff Donlan | 08 July 2006 at 11:19 PM
Hi Ed
Huddersfield Public Library has a nice "serendipity" section:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/organised/98972109/
Posted by: Dave Pattern | 09 July 2006 at 08:23 AM
A friendlier way to organize books? What if a catalog said "look in the red section under A" instead of "105.9 Ad"?
Posted by: Matt | 10 July 2006 at 03:27 PM
To answer my own question: people with red-green color problems would be out of luck.
Posted by: Mat | 10 July 2006 at 03:28 PM