This was another thing that I spotted on the CILIP Daily news email which I felt was quite interesting… it doesn’t give any more details than that below, but i remember seeing a picture of a library in which all the books had been classified by the colour of their spine… so all the black books were together, and the blue, red and so forth… I’m sure this one is a bit more systematic though :)

“Jason Healey, a design student at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth has developed a classification system using colours and symbols to make it easier for people with disabilities to find their way around the library. Julia Waite, CILIP Member and Librarian at the Institute said she was interested in the idea ‘to get people to the right part of the library without using numbers’. Jason Healey’s system was given a Best New Blood Award from educational charity D&AD.”
THES, pp54-55, 25 May