Study room reservation software

[Michael Schofield]

Hey there,

I am not sure that we're quite prepared to say, "Here! Take the code!" but at the Alvin Sherman Library didn't want to pay for a product that seemed too constrained for its expense, so we built a Study Room Reservation system [just PHP/MySQL] that integrates with our ILS* (we prefer to circulate the keys [since circulation stats stand up better to an audit than just the stats on the backend]). We built a staff and administrative backend for circulation, it handles holidays, extended hours, complex rules, etc. It's responsive down to 768px ***. We're not calling this a version "1" yet, but it's been in production since December. If home-growing your room res system is an option, I'd be happy to allay fears and concerns, etc., talk about our process, why we made the decisions we did, etc.

Give it a look: http://sherman.library.nova.edu/rooms/ **

* Millenium
** Our icon-fonts in the footer look a little wonky. Please ignore O_o.
*** It's actually mobile-first stylesheet, but we had a deadline so we only made things look right for tablets on up. It's totally squishy. Squish away, but once the grid drops out the text isn't quite aligned. We recently redesigned the site after this, so even though it's only six months old it's due a total facelift. Just got to find the time ... :)



From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Lisa WEBER
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 4:05 PM
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Subject: [WEB4LIB] Study room reservation software

Colleagues,

Your input please! The UC Berkeley Library presently uses phpScheduleIT v.1.2.9 as its study room reservation software. Upgrading to v. 2.4.2 is being considered, but we'd also like to know if there are other room reservation applications we should seriously review and consider. An application that supports unmediated reservations, and authorization via the Library patron file would be pluses.
My list of room reservation apps so far includes:
phpScheduleIT v. 2.4.2
LibCal (Springshare)
Evanced
MRBS
Eventkeeper
Netsimplicity
Drupal modules (Drupal-powered library website coming in the next year, or so)
Thanks in advance for your input and advice,
Lisa Weber
Library Systems Office, UC Berkeley Library

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