Library Websites that use Icons

[Chris Jorgensen]

Dear Colleagues,

I am looking for examples of library websites that have made good use of
icons, as I've been asked to consider (along with my Web Team) adding icons
to our website. As I see it, if we decide to add icons to our site, my
options are buying a set of icons (from someplace like
www.iconexperience.com) or begging the use of some icons off a library that
already is using them. Alas, I have only the graphic design skills to alter
someone else's work (i.e. change color to match our site), but not to create
my own icons from scratch (well, if I wanted them to look decent anyway). 

So, do any of you use icons on your library website or know of libraries
that use them effectively? I'm not really worried about getting permission
to use the icons at this point--I'm just trying to gather some examples to
show to my Web Team for them to consider if icons are the way we want to go.

Please respond off-list, and I'll be glad to compile my list of icon-using
sites and post it if anyone is interested.

Thanks in advance!

Chris Jorgensen
Reference/Web Services Librarian
Reinert/Alumni Memorial Library
2500 California Plaza
Omaha, NE 68178
voice: 402.280.1757
fax: 402.280.2435
email: cjorgensen at creighton.edu
web: http://reinert.creighton.edu