Thanks for the complement, Andreas. Here are some more details about the
LibRooms application we created here at the Portland State University...
We created this study room reservation application in 2012 after not being able
to find an alternative application that fit our needs. We wanted the processes
of scheduling a study room to be as simple as possible. Using our application,
users can view a color-coded calendar showing the availability for all rooms
and easily click/drag to select their desired reservation. The authentication
setup can use local accounts or connect with external authentication systems,
like ILS Patron APIs and CAS single sign-on.
The main reservation calendar is publicly accessible at:
http://library.pdx.edu/studyrooms/
(You need a PSU user account to complete a reservation)
On the admin-side: rooms, users and many reservation policy settings can all be
managed through the web application. There are a few predefined reports and a
report builder that makes it easy to monitor usage in unique ways.
The backend is PHP with the Pear DB database abstraction layer handling all the
database operations. We currently use MySQL for the database, but a number of
other database options can be plugged-in as alternatives.
Over the last 3 years the service has been live here at Portland State we've
gotten very positive feedback from our patrons. If anyone is interested in
using our application, you can email me directly for more details or you can
download our latest open-source version at
https://github.com/pdxlibrary/librooms. We don't have the capacity to provide
extensive technical support for this application, but we are happy to help
where we can.
Thanks,
-Mike
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Mike Flakus
Lead Web Programmer
Portland State University Library
(503) 725-4641
mfla...@pdx.edu
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-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Andreas
Orphanides
Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2015 6:51 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Meeting room reservations
Portland State has something called LibRooms that's got a pretty slick
front-end, though I can't speak to back-end features:
https://github.com/pdxlibrary/librooms
On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Jason Griffey grif...@gmail.com wrote:
Take a look at Booked, formerly PHPScheduleIt:
http://www.bookedscheduler.com
They push the hosted option, but it is an open source project.
Jason
On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 7:52 PM lbspodic lbspo...@ust.hk wrote:
We use MRBS extensively, for managing about 60 rooms and have been
quite happy with it for years.
When we first began using it we needed to heavily customize it. In
more recent years development of the software has been quite active
and almost all our customizations are now available in the main core.
We have groups of rooms which are fully unmediated (subject to set
rules) with other rooms requiring staff booking. MRSB has capacity
for
provisional
booking subject to approval, etc, although we are not using that
function at the moment.
IIRC it is flexible in back end database selection, and I don't
recall encountering much outdated/deprecated functions, although we
don't run it in the most advanced server in the world :)
- Edward Spodick, HK Univ of Science Technology Library,
lbspo...@ust.hk
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Sent from my iPhone - please forgive any wierd spelling errors.
On 5 Apr, 2015, at 7:10 AM, Dominic Bordelon dborde...@ebrpl.com
wrote:
Hi all,
we are looking for an open-source solution to manage scheduling
for our
meeting rooms, including a way for patrons to reserve the rooms
(with
staff
approval). We are happy to modify something to fit our exact needs
if it
is
already solid. We've been trying to work with the vendor Evanced for
their
Spaces product, but we have been disappointed by the lack of
customizability and the black box problem.
I'm aware of OpenRoom and MRBS, and searching the c4l archives
I've
found discussion on this topic, but that thread was from nearly
three
years
ago. What are people using nowadays?
I like OpenRoom's apparent simplicity, and that its feature set is
nearly exactly all we need. However, my concerns with it are the use
of php's mysql_* functions, which have been deprecated in favor of
mysqli;
and
the many notices/errors it shows when I've run it on a test server.
(The installation guide seems to anticipate this: If you are
experiencing problems with OpenRoom such as being unable to log in,
modules (such as
the
calendar or day view) not loading, or random warnings or notices
appearing
on pages, until the code has been corrected to fix these issues, you
may want to try suppressing notices and warnings by modifying your
php.ini
file
in your PHP installation
