[OPLINTECH] Meeting Room Scheduler

shivelri@oplin.org shivelri at oplin.org
Mon Jul 28 10:06:51 EDT 2008


I would be very intrigued to see the code for your scheduler. Is it 
using a webform that is then sent to a database? Is it publicly accessed 
or just by staff assigned to schedule such events?

oplintech-request at oplin.org wrote:
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> Subject:
> Re: [OPLINTECH] Meeting Room Scheduler
> From:
> Nathan Eady <eady at galion.lib.oh.us>
> Date:
> Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:26:24 -0400
> To:
> <oplintech at oplin.org>
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> To:
> <oplintech at oplin.org>
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> "Carol Dunn" <Dunn at FindlayLibrary.org> writes:
>
>   
>> We are under construction, and building 2 new meeting rooms. We want
>> to buy software that would schedule the meetings. What does your
>> library use? Any help appreciated for suggestions,
>>     
>
> We use a homebrew solution written in Perl (using DBI and DateTime)
> and a small bit of AJAX.  Since we are a single-building library, this
> works pretty well for us, since pretty much the whole network is 100
> MBPS.  One advantage is that we were able to make the form look a lot
> like our old paper ones.  Another is that we've been able to make it
> do pretty much exactly what we want.  (Just yesterday I made a small
> change at the request of the children's room staff.)
>
> The same system also handles the bookings for our patron internet and
> word processing computers.
>
> I can make the source available if anyone is interested.  It's a
> little messy, since I initially wrote it when I was still learning
> Perl and have not done as much refactoring as I would like to do.
> Also, I've never tested with MSIE, or any other non-Gecko browser
> for that matter.  But it works for us.
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