[Web4lib] Study room booking systems

[Andrea Peterson]

We started using MRBS due to dissatisfaction with the IIII booking module as well.   We've been using it for a few years now and are really happy with it.  You can see what our implementation looks like, though you can't actually book a room since it will require authentication.  https://library.wwu.edu/groupstudy/ 


Andy Peterson
Head of Library IT
Western Washington University Libraries
516 High St.
Bellingham, WA 98225-9103
andrea.peterson at wwu.edu
(360) 650-3894(phone)
(360) 650-3954(fax)


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From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Bennett
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 12:33 PM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Study room booking systems

We have recently started using MRBS after several complaints on the III 
booking module interface.  We have personalized MRBS for our campus css.  It 
offers many  options for authentication and we chose email authentication so we 
are able to authenticate users of the campus IT email server without having to 
go through campus IT bureaucracy to connect to LDAP, Shiboleth, or other.  I 
would send a URL but as just stated it authenticates of our email server to 
get in.  I understand MRBS is well documented, I didn't work on this project 
myself.

Thomas


On Wednesday 31 August 2011 20:55:26 Cockerill, Alan wrote:
> I know one university running FOSS MRBS http://mrbs.sourceforge.net/
> 
> I've almost given up trying to get to run on a w2k3 VM running apache - but
>  the other uni is very happy with it.
> 
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of Mikael Jacobsen
> Sent: Wed 8/31/2011 4:25 PM
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: [Web4lib] Study room booking systems
> 
> 
> 
> I was wondering what systems everybody used for study room bookings.  We
> have 7 study rooms and plan on adding many more in the future.
> Currently we use an Excel spreadsheet.  Obviously users can not book
> rooms by themselves and see availability online which is an ability we
> would like to have.
> 
> 
> 
> Feel free to contact me off list if you prefer.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mick
> 
> 
> 
> Mikael "Mick" Jacobsen
> 
> Supervisor of Adult Computer Labs, Librarian
> 
> Skokie Public Library, IL
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> http://www.skokielibrary.info <http://www.skokielibrary.info/> 
>  <http://www.skokielibrary.info/>
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> mjacobsen at skokielibrary.info <mailto:mjacobsen at skokielibrary.info>
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> 847.324.3196
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Thomas McMillan Grant Bennett           Appalachian State University
Operations & Systems Analyst            P O Box 32026
University Library                                Boone, North Carolina 28608
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