icon set for libraries

[graham <graham theseamans net>]

Hi,

I'm looking for any community of icon designers who might be prepared to
work on a set of icons to be used by library software, so this isn't
actually a gnome request - it's a request to be pointed somewhere more
appropriate! Maybe somewhere like
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/ArtRequests/ but not specifically for Gnome.

There is currently a lot of free software emerging in libraries, which
have traditionally been dominated by large proprietary suppliers. There
are quite a few developers, but it seems a shortage of people with
design skills. There are also lots of cc/pd icon sets around but not
oriented to library materials; you can make up a set by cobbling
together some from a mix of sources, but it's not very satisfactory in
terms of clarity or style.

We've been trying to put together a list of icons required at
http://vufind.org/wiki/icon_set
where you can see some of the problems: lots of quite similar types of
document which need differentiating visually.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Graham