Summary: Library Websites that Use Icons

[H. Frank Cervone]

In the late '90's, an IFLA committee developed a set of standard icons for 
use with bibliographic database applications. The set is free of copyright 
and available for use by application developers and publishers.

Although this standard has not been adopted widely, the standard is still 
advocated by IFLA. More information on the "

Bibliographic Standard GUI Icon Set"

is available

at

http://www.scran.ac.uk/iconstd/

Frank Cervone
Assistant University Librarian for Information Technology
Northwestern University
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208-2300
847.491.8304

At 03:59 PM 12/14/2004, Drew, Bill wrote:
>I really question the use of icons since there is no agreed upon
>standard for what represents a catalog or what represents a subject
>guide.  There is no standard set.  I have yet to see a really good set
>of icons that helps navigation better than clear simple text. Convince
>me I'm wrong.
>
>Bill Drew
>drewwe at morrisville.edu
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: web4lib at webjunction.org
> > [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Chris Jorgensen
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 3:49 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list
> > Subject: [WEB4LIB] Summary: Library Websites that Use Icons
> >
> > Dear Colleagues,
> >
> > At least one person expressed some interest in finding out
> > the results of my
> > request for examples of library websites that use icons. I
> > have made a list