Dear Roy,

I would be interested in participating because I have been working on a logo
for our library with a designer, and have logos on the brain right now. I
may try to publish something about our process and would also like to see
the development of another logo for comparison purposes.

By the way, I'm the same Emily who commented on your Kindle post (I think I
was rather harsh in retrospect)--thank you for your rebuttal, which was
reasonable. I'd love to talk about this more some time, since I used to work
in book publishing before library school and had a front-row seat to watch
the development of some of the ebook projects going on at the time. (I
started out as the assistant to Phyllis Grann, famous CEO of Penguin.) I
think a lot of the early missteps had to do with paranoia over what had
happened to the music industry, with which book publishing is connected on a
personal if not official level. If you're going to be at Code4Lib in
Providence this year, I will track you down to talk!

Emily
NYU Health Sciences Libraries

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Roy Tennant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Having brought up the question of a Code4Lib logo, and then forcing not
> one,
> but two, votes on you all I realize I have been remiss in not taking the
> next step. If I didn't know any better, I would think that I've been
> distracted recently by, uh, some sort of public relations disaster or
> something. But anyway, I digress.
>
> A month ago, at the end of the second vote[1] that determined we would work
> with Stephanie Brinley, I called for volunteers to work on an ad hoc task
> force to shepherd the process. As Leslie Johnston said at one point "The
> key
> to working with a professional is in identifying the design "program" ‹
> what
> the organization's "story" is, who its community is, and who you want to
> get
> your message to with the branding, as well as identifying what uses the
> logo
> will be used for ‹ print, promotional items (t-shirts, hats, temporary
> tatoos, whatever), online ‹ which has on effect on the deliverables, e.g.
> file sizes and formats." David Cloutman also talked about developing a
> "requirements document" that could be vetted on the list.
>
> I suggest drafting something of no more than one page in length to provide
> such background and guidance. I and whomever wishes to join me will draft
> it, post it to the list for wider feedback, revise it based on that
> feedback, and contact Stephanie. I will begin this now, so if you want to
> be
> involved please let me know. Thanks,
> Roy
>
>
> [1] http://dilettantes.code4lib.org/voting_booth/election/results/6
>