TTW Mailbox: Rethinking Libraries

Liz Delzell, YS Library Assistant at Fox River Grove Memorial Library sent along this link:

 

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Rethinking Libraries By ana    For her senior thesis project, Valerie Madill reconsidered how design could make using the library more engaging and easier. She used half-wrap labels that would unify a particular subject by color as well as provide a consistent place for relevant information about each book. The result is a more sensual, desirable library experience that could draw more people to libraries and make find material more intuitive. As library geeks, this is the kind of design and creative thinking that makes P+P giddy.

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5 comments to TTW Mailbox: Rethinking Libraries

• “Rethinking Libraries” - Color coding the Subjects on the shelves « Starry Dynamo Librarians: Connecting Imaginative Instruction and Emerging Technologies

  August 6, 2008 at 2:43 pm

  [...] August 6, 2008 · No Comments via Tame the Web [...]

• surferblue

  August 7, 2008 at 1:09 pm

  I was trying to remember the name of the library that experimented with arranging materials by color. (I don’t think it was Huddersfield from the Flickr link below.) Anyone know which one it was? While I was searching around, I came across a few interesting related links.

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/organised/98972109/

  http://www.superherodesigns.com/journal/archives/000453.html

  http://freshome.com/2008/02/12/rainbow-bookshelf/

• You’re Getting Warmer: Unleashing the Real Power of RFID « Surf’s Up

  August 7, 2008 at 2:09 pm

  [...] Getting Warmer: Unleashing the Real Power of RFID I ran across an interesting post over on Michael Stephens‘ blog. Valérie Madill created an interesting senior grad [...]

• Kevin

  August 8, 2008 at 1:07 pm

  That is awesome. I especially like the citations in MLA and APA format on the half-wraps. I wonder how it would translate for a Public Library using Dewey — as opposed to the LC here…

• Kevin

  August 8, 2008 at 1:12 pm

  Then again – reading the comments from Ryan and Bill on the P+p site — I totally forgot about accessibility for those that are colorblind.