My not-so-secret desire is to add cover colour as an official MARC field and allow users worldwide to search the library catalogue by colour. (See the New England School of Law and University of Huddersfield mockups.) It’d be brilliant: you could go to the advanced search screen and select:

• title: Mechanics of Materials
• location: Restricted Loan
• colour: oh, about there on the colour circle

In the meantime, I’m working up to total World Catalogue Domination by subtle steps. The other day I forwarded “Getting Books to Move” from Stephen’s Lighthouse to a colleague, who came up with this display.

Click through to see it on Flickr – we had fun adding notes linking each book through to its catalogue record. (Not the sort of thing I’d want to do for a weekly display unless there was a definite market for it – but lots of fun.)