Re: Your Choice URL for Study Room Reservations

From: Alisak Sanavongsay <asanavongsay_at_nyob>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:07:30 -0800
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
I didn't have any part in its naming or development, but we use 'crs,' which is short for "Campus Reservation System." You can take a peep at the front page at http://crs.ucmerced.edu. Our system is based on phpScheduleIt (http://phpscheduleit.sourceforge.net/).

Regards,
Alisak.

Alisak Sanavongsay  Digital Assets Programmer  UC Merced Library  http://library.ucmerced.edu  asanavongsay@ucmerced.edu





On Nov 30, 2012, at 6:05 AM, Michael Schofield <mschofield_at_NOVA.EDU> wrote:

> What’s up everyone,
> 
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> 
> We are homegrowing a study room reservation system and we’re within a week
> of making it live—but still in beta—to the public. Right now, on our staging
> box, our URI looks like something.library.nova.edu/room-res. /room-res
> doesn’t mean anything, to me. The public URI will be similarly long, like
> somethingelse.library.nova.edu/whatever. 
> 
> 
> 
> Any recommendations or experience with your own reservation links? IMHO, it
> should be simple, since the link is already going to be on the long end.
> Right now I’m vying for /reservations, but TBH this system is just for
> public study rooms and not for our larger conference rooms – I’m not sure
> our primary users [the students and faculty] will care, but we’ll definitely
> be reminded of that technicality by other librarians J. I don’t like
> /studyrooms, but it’s the best I’ve got since I’m avoiding hyphens.
> 
> 
> 
> Just picking your brains. Thanks! 
> 
> 
> 
> Michael Schofield(@nova.edu) | @gollydamn | Front-End Librarian à
> www.ns4lib.com
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Received on Fri Nov 30 2012 - 12:08:43 EST