Category: bookshelf

Some book shelf solutions

Ah, the joys of Crib Candy – so many pretty things appear in my feed reader!

Of course, as a library geek, I keep a note of the nicest shelving solutions…hey, you never know when my employers might go mad and demand a redesign of the Library using only eco-friendly materials, or one entirely suspended from the ceiling, right?!?!

So, here’s some of the most interesting book shelves that I’ve seen recently.

Diagonal Bookshelves

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Slat shelf

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Rotating Bookshelf

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Rotating Shelving System

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Double Access shelf

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Leaf Shelf (with perhaps a OTT claim – “Available in all leaves of the known universe.”

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Leaves Bookshelves

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Bamboo Bookshelves

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Think that’s enough for now…more to follow!

Random library and book bits


A collection of some of the pretty / fun library related stuff I’ve bookmarked over the past few weeks…

Furniture and decorative bits, made out of those pesky, un-recyclable books:

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Elephant / bus / snail shaped bookshelves for kids rooms…funky!

Some fabulous, (and some insane) shelving / bookcase ideas here. My favourite is this one, the arrangement in the top right makes it look like a tree full of books:

And finally, a way to reuse all those Metro papers that keep appearing in the corner of rooms…. roll them into twine, and make them into rugs!

Pretty academic library shelves

How pretty – a project that colour codes library books with partial spine labels shaded according to classification.

My favourite aspect of the colours is knowing a law library’s colour palette will be dramatically different then that of a Art & Design library. The colours are assigned to the subjects as a rainbow gradient since there is no such thing as 21 unique colours and the classification system is linear.

Wonder if I’d be allowed to do that here – would make looking at the shelves all day more fun!

From SwissMiss