New material type icons
The current icons available for the OPAC for material types are woefully lacking. There's no icon for audiobooks (the modern digital type), but you have icons for cd-rom books and books on cassette. The icon I'd most like to see added is a streaming video icon. This is a very common collection item in the 21st century, but our only option is a film (reel-to-reel), dvd, or internet resource (which isn't helpful at all). Any chance we could get more modern material type icons? For ideas, simply google "streaming video icon" and look at all the options!
Idea Value
Users could distinguish between films on dvd and streaming films. When you use "internet resource" as a material type, that is such a catch-all that it doesn't make sense to users. Users know what streaming video is, so why not offer a material type icon for that?
Courtney Selby
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Iain Barksdale
commented
Icons are abundant and easy to use/acquire. However, the ability to implement them in the Webpac is sorely lacking. We need the flexibility to use SVG files, or CSS icon solutions, such as Font Awesome. The HTML coding for the Webpac is sorely out of step with modern html coding and industry standards and this further complicates matters of customization.
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Jessica Bell
commented
Hi, I'm new to this Idea Share platform. Our system really likes this idea and wonders if it could also be done for the SDA client. We noticed some areas where we would like to have better icon options (magazines, STEAM kits, eAudio, etc.). Not sure if we would need to submit another idea share for this or not. Thanks!
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Rachel Alexander
commented
I would like a dual DVD/Blu-Ray icon as well!
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Alison Pruntel
commented
Are you talking about the icons for the Sierra client software? If so, then yes, we need some up to date icons. With the WebPAC, you can show your own versions (but why should you have to create a bunch of icons), but you're stuck with what III supplies for the Sierra software.
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Bruce Eames
commented
I'm guessing there might be an expectation that sites would create their own MAT TYPE icons as needed. The field is completely customisable and in practical terms how would Innovative keep up with what icons the sites wanted?