Re: [CODE4LIB] desk scheduling software?
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 lets people enter their availability and preferences and also allows you to set up rules (how many shifts/hours/weekends certain labor groups can do, etc). It will then autofill schedules for you which you can then manually tweak. Also allows individuals to trade shifts within the rules you set up. About a million other features though after the initial learning it was easy for people to ignore everything else and get used to their workflow. I'm sure there are better things out there depending on your requirements but for our schedulers initial requirements this has worked better than previous systems at least. Eby On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Shearer, Timothy J tshea...@email.unc.edu wrote: Hi Folks, Anyone happy with their solutions for scheduling service points? Even moderately happy? Thanks, Tim
Re: [CODE4LIB] desk scheduling software?
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 groups! (Another option is a excel) Riley Childs Junior and Library Tech Manager Charlotte United Christian Academy +1 (704) 497-2086 Sent from my iPhone Please excuse mistakes On Sep 10, 2013, at 7:00 AM, Ryan Eby ryan...@gmail.com wrote: 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 lets people enter their availability and preferences and also allows you to set up rules (how many shifts/hours/weekends certain labor groups can do, etc). It will then autofill schedules for you which you can then manually tweak. Also allows individuals to trade shifts within the rules you set up. About a million other features though after the initial learning it was easy for people to ignore everything else and get used to their workflow. I'm sure there are better things out there depending on your requirements but for our schedulers initial requirements this has worked better than previous systems at least. Eby On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Shearer, Timothy J tshea...@email.unc.edu wrote: Hi Folks, Anyone happy with their solutions for scheduling service points? Even moderately happy? Thanks, Tim
[CODE4LIB] desk scheduling software?
Hi Folks, Anyone happy with their solutions for scheduling service points? Even moderately happy? Thanks, Tim
Re: [CODE4LIB] desk scheduling software?
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 chat, and we break this up into 3 calendars: Reference desk, Student tech at reference desk, and Reference chat. We use a combination of shared events, naming conventions and color coding to deal with shift ownership, indicating needs coverage, etc. I don't know how well that would work for you since y'all are on Outlook -- that is, whether Outlook as the same combinations of features that have made GCal work ok for us. This could especially be a problem if you need to schedule students as well as staff, since your students are on Live Mail. For us it works well since everyone's using GCal for their daily schedules anyway. On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Shearer, Timothy J tshea...@email.unc.eduwrote: Hi Folks, Anyone happy with their solutions for scheduling service points? Even moderately happy? Thanks, Tim
