We have two new study rooms on board, bringing us back to a full complement of four study rooms in Aungier St. The third is next to study room 2 and the 4th will be the old print room adjacent to the four computers that face the library desk.
Not coincidentally, we've decided to retire our online booking system, which will now be melted down for electron glue. It served us for a more than a few years, but it's now time for it to leave the scene.
We are waiting for a new booking system, that promises to be a lot better than what's gone before, but these things take time, so in the interim, we are reverting back to a paper-based system. Please make your room bookings at the library desk, while we sort out a better online system. Thank you for your patience!
Showing posts with label room booking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label room booking. Show all posts
Thursday, 15 October 2015
Monday, 18 February 2013
Library online booking system down
We are sorry to announce that our online booking system is currently inaccessible due to a file corruption on the system.
We hope to have it restored by the end of the week (24th Feb.) Until then, please bear with us while our system librarian tries his very best to have the problem solved with our online booking system provider.
Thank you very much for your patience and understanding.
Today, Wednesday 20th Feb., you can access BSA1.3 (Balfe Street Block A) from 9am-2pm & 3-5pm.
We hope to have it restored by the end of the week (24th Feb.) Until then, please bear with us while our system librarian tries his very best to have the problem solved with our online booking system provider.
Thank you very much for your patience and understanding.
Today, Wednesday 20th Feb., you can access BSA1.3 (Balfe Street Block A) from 9am-2pm & 3-5pm.
Friday, 27 July 2012
Using the new booking system
In theory, it should be quite easy to use, you can go to the library catalogue directly, and search for "book a PC" or "book a room". Searching for "Book a PC" will return 5 results:
Aungier St PCs1-9
Aungier St PCs 10-17
Aungier St PCs 18-24
Dame St PCs 1-7
Dame St PCS 8-14
Searching for "Book a Room" will return two results:
Aungier St Study Rooms
Dame St Study Rooms.
Click the result that you want. In the detailed record, click on the 'Place booking' button. If you are not logged in, you will be prompted to do so before you can continue. Once you have logged in, you will see the booking planner (as with all subsequent images, click the image, to enlarge it):
It's not as scary as it looks! On the left is a list of resources; PCs or study rooms. Here, you can see Aungier St PCs 10-17, with PC10 selected as the default. To the right is today's opening hours; the Aungier St library being open from 09.30 to 17.15. The greyed out area represents the past and is unavailable for booking; only the white is available. The red outline represents the current time available for booking. To make a booking, click the 'New booking button' and click the 30 minute box that corresponds to the time that you want to book. Click the box next to it if you want to book for an hour and click OK.
A confirmation message will appear after a successful booking. Click the Continue button.
Above, I've decided to book PC14 at Aungier St from 15:30 to 16:30 on Friday 27th July. I need to confirm that by clicking OK. This is the confirmation message: Take note of what you are booking as, unlike the existing system, there's no email confirmation sent.
You can change your mind and cancel the reservation by clicking the Cancel button. If you decide at a later time yo cancel your booking, you can do so by clicking on 'Account' then the 'Reservations' tab, ticking the box next to your booking and clicking 'Cancel.
If you have any feedback, it will be passed on to the developers and hopefully will be used to improve the system.
Aungier St PCs1-9
Aungier St PCs 10-17
Aungier St PCs 18-24
Dame St PCs 1-7
Dame St PCS 8-14
Searching for "Book a Room" will return two results:
Aungier St Study Rooms
Dame St Study Rooms.
Click the result that you want. In the detailed record, click on the 'Place booking' button. If you are not logged in, you will be prompted to do so before you can continue. Once you have logged in, you will see the booking planner (as with all subsequent images, click the image, to enlarge it):
It's not as scary as it looks! On the left is a list of resources; PCs or study rooms. Here, you can see Aungier St PCs 10-17, with PC10 selected as the default. To the right is today's opening hours; the Aungier St library being open from 09.30 to 17.15. The greyed out area represents the past and is unavailable for booking; only the white is available. The red outline represents the current time available for booking. To make a booking, click the 'New booking button' and click the 30 minute box that corresponds to the time that you want to book. Click the box next to it if you want to book for an hour and click OK.
A confirmation message will appear after a successful booking. Click the Continue button.
Above, I've decided to book PC14 at Aungier St from 15:30 to 16:30 on Friday 27th July. I need to confirm that by clicking OK. This is the confirmation message: Take note of what you are booking as, unlike the existing system, there's no email confirmation sent.
You can change your mind and cancel the reservation by clicking the Cancel button. If you decide at a later time yo cancel your booking, you can do so by clicking on 'Account' then the 'Reservations' tab, ticking the box next to your booking and clicking 'Cancel.
If you have any feedback, it will be passed on to the developers and hopefully will be used to improve the system.
Thursday, 26 July 2012
New PC/Room Booking System
We automated the PC/Room Booking process two years ago, and all-in-all it's been a success. The system however is not without its...foibles. These foibles will make it more difficult to use the system this year, so from Monday 30/07 we're testing a new system, one that is integrated into the library catalogue. This system has several advantages, a couple of which are that you can use your library catalogue login and you can more easily see and manage your booking. It's not going to be perfect, though to paraphrase thirteenth-century Chinese scholar Tai T'ung, were we to await perfection, our booking system would never be finished. I'll follow this with some details on how to use the booking system.
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