room booking / reservation systems

Hello - 

x-posted. I'm wondering what systems are in use for booking
or reserving
study rooms via the web. This would be for a small academic
US library. 

I rounded up these systems, so far:
-paper and pen signup
-in-house programming
-III Millennium module http://www.iii.com
/mill/circ.shtml
-ExLibris Voyager Media booking module
http://
www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/Voyager
-E-vanced solutions http://www.e-vanced
solutions.com/
-EventKeeper http://www.eventkeeper.co
m/

I also know these exist, but I don't know if libraries use
them:
-Meeting Room booking system http://sourcefo
rge.net/projects/mrbs/
-Netsimplicity Meeting Room Manager
http://www.netsimplicity.com/products/mrm/webscheduli
ng.asp
 
Any other recommendations? I'm most interested in systems
where patrons
can put in a reservation via the web without staff mediation
and can see
what time slots are already booked before they attempt to
reserve a
room. We would not need the ability to set recurring
bookings, the
bookings would be for two hours max at a time, and we'd need
some system
of authentication - ideally a system that is capable of
authenticating
against an external source.

I promise to summarize responses, if there are any that
aren't posted to
the group. 

Thanks,
Elena
__
Elena O'Malley, Assistant Director for Technology and Access
Services
Emerson College Library, Boston, MA 02116


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We've used MRBS (http://mrbs.sourceforge.
net/ ) at the Texas Tech main
library for about 6 years and I am pleased with it. 


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Subject: [Web4lib] room booking / reservation systems

Hello - 

x-posted. I'm wondering what systems are in use for booking
or reserving
study rooms via the web. This would be for a small academic
US library. 

I rounded up these systems, so far:
-paper and pen signup
-in-house programming
-III Millennium module http://www.iii.com
/mill/circ.shtml
-ExLibris Voyager Media booking module
http://
www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/Voyager
-E-vanced solutions http://www.e-vanced
solutions.com/
-EventKeeper http://www.eventkeeper.co
m/

I also know these exist, but I don't know if libraries use
them:
-Meeting Room booking system http://sourcefo
rge.net/projects/mrbs/
-Netsimplicity Meeting Room Manager
http://www.netsimplicity.com/products/mrm/webscheduli
ng.asp
 
Any other recommendations? I'm most interested in systems
where patrons
can put in a reservation via the web without staff mediation
and can see
what time slots are already booked before they attempt to
reserve a
room. We would not need the ability to set recurring
bookings, the
bookings would be for two hours max at a time, and we'd need
some system
of authentication - ideally a system that is capable of
authenticating
against an external source.

I promise to summarize responses, if there are any that
aren't posted to
the group. 

Thanks,
Elena
__
Elena O'Malley, Assistant Director for Technology and Access
Services
Emerson College Library, Boston, MA 02116


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We use MRBS at HKUST Library - works great for us.  We
modified the program for some local needs, but the default
package is being updated well.

-Ed


At 3:41 PM -0500 1/11/08, Elena OMalley wrote:
>Hello -
>
>x-posted. I'm wondering what systems are in use for
booking or reserving
>study rooms via the web. This would be for a small
academic US library.
>
>I rounded up these systems, so far:
>-paper and pen signup
>-in-house programming
>-III Millennium module http://www.iii.com
/mill/circ.shtml
>-ExLibris Voyager Media booking module
>http://
www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/Voyager
>-E-vanced solutions http://www.e-vanced
solutions.com/
>-EventKeeper http://www.eventkeeper.co
m/
>
>I also know these exist, but I don't know if libraries
use them:
>-Meeting Room booking system http://sourcefo
rge.net/projects/mrbs/
>-Netsimplicity Meeting Room Manager
>http://www.netsimplicity.com/products/mrm/webscheduli
ng.asp
> 
>Any other recommendations? I'm most interested in
systems where patrons
>can put in a reservation via the web without staff
mediation and can see
>what time slots are already booked before they attempt
to reserve a
>room. We would not need the ability to set recurring
bookings, the
>bookings would be for two hours max at a time, and we'd
need some system
>of authentication - ideally a system that is capable of
authenticating
>against an external source.
>
>I promise to summarize responses, if there are any that
aren't posted to
>the group. 
>
>Thanks,
>Elena
>__
>Elena O'Malley, Assistant Director for Technology and
Access Services
>Emerson College Library, Boston, MA 02116
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Web4lib mailing list
>Web4libwebjunction.org
>http://lists.we
bjunction.org/web4lib/


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