It turns out that there have been reshelving projects before ours. Not a huge surprise, I suppose, although I hadn’t given it much thought. The one I came across is the Ministry of Reshelving Project.

Unlike isfrd, the ministry was politically motivated and focused on a single book: 1984 by George Orwell. Their complaint, like ours, was that the book was misshelved, although they had a different final destination in mind. They moved 1984 to “History”, “Politics” or “Current Events.” We prefer to shelve it in “Science Fiction.”

In any case, the ministry project had some very good ideas (and some good press; we need to get some of that), which we will be stealing unapologetically. Bookmarks had already been planned (and should be available on the site this weekend) and other ideas will follow.

Any other reshelving projects we should know about? Please let us know!