Book stuff:

A bookstore arranged by color

For one amazing week in November, Adobe Bookshop in San Francisco has agreed to allow its estimated 20,000 books to be reclassified by color. Shifting from red to orange to yellow to green, the books will follow the spectrum continuously, changing Adobe from a neighborhood bookshop into a magical library—but only for one week.

The story I hear most from reference librarians is about those patrons who can't remember who wrote the book or the name of it, but they have a vague recollection of what it was about, and they definitely know what color it was. This would be a color-oriented patron's dream. [via Metagrrrl]

Also, The the Prelinger Library

The contents of the library cohere around four constant threads: landscape and geography; media and representation; historical consciousness; and political narratives from beyond the mainstream. Each of these four threads is represented in its own dedicated section in the library, but each is also represented to some extent on nearly every shelf.

The library is appropriation-friendly. It has been built to serve the raw material needs of creators of all kinds, including visual artists as well as researchers and writers. This means that the holdings are weighted toward image-richness, and toward materials that are within the public domain.

Good good stuff.