The Ministry of Reshelving

[franceslievens]

The Ministry of Reshelving wants you! How to serve them?

1. Select a local bookstore to carry out your reshelving activities.
   
   
2. Download and print "This book has been relocated by the Ministry of Reshelving" bookmarks and "All copies of 1984 have been relocated" notecards to take with you to the bookstore. Or make your own. We recommend bringing a notecard and 5-10 bookmarks to each store. (both links are downloads!)
   
   
3. Go to the bookstore and locate its copies of George Orwell's 1984. Unless the Ministry of Reshelving has already visited this bookstore, it is probably currently incorrectly classified as "Fiction" or "Literature."
   
   
4. Discreetly move all copies of 1984 to a more suitable section, such as "Current Events", "Politics", "History", "True Crime", or "New Non-Fiction."
   
   
5. Insert a Ministry of Reshelving bookmark into each copy of any book you have moved. Leave a notecard in the empty space the books once occupied.
   
   
6. If you spot other incorrectly classified books, feel free to relocate them.
   
   
7. Please report all reshelving efforts to the Ministry. Email your store name, location, # of 1984 copies reshelved, and any other reshelving activities conducted, to reshelving @ avantgame.com. Photos of your mission can be uploaded to Flickr, tagged as "reshelving", and submitted to the Ministry of Reshelving group.
   

The Ministry of Reshelving is founded by Jane McGonigal and gets the support of danah boyd.

Comments

[chrissie-linnit.livejournal.com]

LOL

The anarchist in me is dying to go Re-shelve the Teen Reading section of Borders - I love Phillip Pullman and find it a bit pervy that I have to get his books from the kids section instead of Fantasy & Sci-Fi. Do I dare disrupt the tranquility of Borders, though? Hmmm, five long days to vacation though. What else is there to do?

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

You could start travelling through the country and letting innocent readers know that 1984 is a very important work on current events. And that one Waterstone's at a time...