Re: [CODE4LIB] desk scheduling software?

2013-09-10 Thread Ryan Eby
I'm not directly involved with scheduling thankfully, but we have had quite a few systems including excel, calendars, etc. One we are trying now is https://www.schedulesource.com/ It is definitely not polished and suffers from feature bloat but the bloat is kind of what people wanted to try. It

Re: [CODE4LIB] desk scheduling software?

2013-09-10 Thread Riley Childs
Public Google Calendar that staff has Read/Write access to. It works well, it just depends what you want. GC has a ok API and it should be easy enough to write a Bash script that pulls in the calendar every so often and checks for event name changes. This works best when managing smaller

[CODE4LIB] desk scheduling software?

2013-09-06 Thread Shearer, Timothy J
Hi Folks, Anyone happy with their solutions for scheduling service points? Even moderately happy? Thanks, Tim

Re: [CODE4LIB] desk scheduling software?

2013-09-06 Thread Andreas Orphanides
We're on Google Calendar as an institution and have come up with some practices that work decently well for scheduling our service points, by making Google calendars for the service points themselves. Our staffing includes 1 librarian and 1-3 students at the reference desk plus 1 librarian on