Full support for emoji in Polaris Label Manager
Many libraries like to call attention to their genre fiction through the use of spine label stickers and icons. For instance, science fiction items may feature an image of a grey alien, mysteries have a magnifying glass or a skull and crossbones, and westerns use a cowboy or a horse or something similar. The thing is, there's no reason a library couldn't print the icons on the spine labels themselves using emoji.
👽 = Science Fiction
🐴 = Western
💀 = Mystery
🦄 = Fantasy
🏰 = Historical Fiction
And so on. However, the Polaris Label Manager barely supports any emoji. Instead of displaying and printing the emoji, it displays a broken character code. Could we please get full emoji support for Label Manager?
Daniel Messer
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Daniel Messer
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I like what Sarah St. Martin has to say below - about being able to use your own images. That'd be an absolute game changer for spine labels and it'd get libraries out of the habit of buying stickers. Printing a custom icon, or an emoji, on the spine label will save money for the library and decrease the amount of paper used throughout the organization.
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Sarah St. Martin
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Labels frequently get discontinued, and libraries then have to choose a new one and decide if they want to relabel the old ones so they all match or not. Also, sometimes the labels available are not that appealing (I remember one library getting frustrated at the lack of parenting labels), and being able to decide on your own image solves both of these issues.
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Lynn Reynish
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Great idea! Seems cheaper than buying a zillion varieties of stickers.