Summary: Library Websites that Use Icons

[Steven Turner]

Bill, check out the "ISO/IEC 11581: Icon symbols and
functions" standard - it's part of a collection of
international HCI and WWW usability standards. While
this won't answer the question you posed, you might
still find it intereting and/or helpful.

In fact, a nice collection of the above (various ISO,
etc. WWW usability standards) can be found on Jakob
Nielson's site here :

<http://www.usabilitynet.org/tools/r_international.htm#11581>

Nielson also has, on his site useit.com, a nice case
study of developing usable icon design for Sun's web
presence back in 95 - 96...old, but interesting, and
the design and testing process is still vaild.

<http://www.useit.com/papers/sun/icons.html>

Steve Turner

--- "H. Frank Cervone" <f-cervone at northwestern.edu>
wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 


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Steven Turner, M.L.I.S.
Assistant Professor 
Web Manager / Electronic Resources Librarian
The University of Southern Mississippi
email: Steven.Turner at usm.edu / Phone: (601)266-4066


		
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