Adger, I have to agree with you on this. I also use III, and I certainly don't know what most of those icons are supposed to mean ... how is a patron supposed to know?! Many are useless to me.
Julie On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Adger Williams <awilli...@colgate.edu>wrote: > I have to offer a few reservations about icons and communication. They're > great until, they are incomprehensible. > > How many of us can tell what ALL the icons next to the input jacks on the > back of the computer signify? > My ILS (Innovative) has different icons for different modules and they > completely non-communicative. > How is someone to tell the difference between CD, DVD, and Blue-Ray in an > icon? > Is a child of the cell-phone era likely to decode the old icon for a modem > port (a handheld phone receiver with cord)? This points out the possibility > for quick obsolescence of icons. > > .02$ > AW > > -- Julie Renee Moore Catalog Librarian California State University, Fresno julie.renee.mo...@gmail.com 559-278-5813 "In the end only kindness matters." -- Jewel
