Dear Colleagues,
Please see below various suggestions sent to me on the above topic.
Please contact me if any of the synopsises below are of interest to you
and I will put you in touch with the people responsible.
Many thanks to those who sent replies. We are investigating several of
those below but I am still interested in other systems if any one has
any further ones.
Cheers
Steve Lee
University of Glamorgan
see
http://www.squidoo.com/pcbookingsystems/
<http://www.squidoo.com/pcbookingsystems/> for systems than can be
adapted for this purpose
We've got one at Loughborough that we wrote ourselves called the Web
User Booking System (WUBS). We've open sourced it - you can grab the
code from <URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wubs
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/wubs> >. Its used for booking our
private study carrels, group study rooms, training rooms, meeting rooms,
some PCs, etc, etc. The students can reserve rooms themselves online,
and different classes of users are allowed to book different amounts of
different types of resource. The system can also generate email notices
of bookings and timetables for some rooms suitable for posting outside
the door (mostly used for the meeting rooms here)
We use the appointments system on our VLE
We're running a very basic excel system which is accessible on the
counter pcs by staff only
We've experimented with MRBS (http://mrbs.sourceforge.net/
<http://mrbs.sourceforge.net/>
we use the reservation system in Talis Prism. Instead of reserving a
book they reserve a room. It has its limitations but we have been using
it since the summer and complaints have dropped off.
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/wubs/>
we use Talis, and I have put cat records for group study rooms onto our
OPAC. If you look at our OPAC, do a keyword search on 'group study room'
you can have a play:
Students can place bookings from home, using their library PINs and
borrower nos.
We do indeed use Talis to do this. We basically set the room up as an
item and make it bookable.
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