Study room reservation software

[Wisniewski, Jeffrey A]

We're using LibCal from Springshare. Works well. We also use (or will be using when our redesigned site launches) Springshare's LibHours. Unfortunately, the two don't talk to each other so we have to input data in two places. Wish they would enable some integration. Otherwise, though, happy with both.

From: Stacy Pober <stacy.pober at MANHATTAN.EDU<mailto:stacy.pober at MANHATTAN.EDU>>
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Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Study room reservation software

We've been using UReserve, an inexpensive commercial product.  The one problem we have is that the granularity of viewing permissions is somewhat limited.  Ideally, we would like to be able to show our users which rooms are reserved and which ones are open, but with UReserve, it will also show them the name of the person who reserved and is using a particular room.   Since many of these are study rooms, where students may not wish to be disturbed, we'd like to be able to have a public view that blocks the user information.



On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Michael Schofield <mschofield at nova.edu<mailto:mschofield at nova.edu>> wrote:
Hey there,

I am not sure that we’re quite repared 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 … :)



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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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