everybody wants one! using voyager short loan to reserve group study rooms heather scalf assistant...
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Everybody Wants One!
Using Voyager Short Loan to Reserve Group Study Rooms
Heather ScalfAssistant Coordinator, Access Services
Heather Scalf, Access Services [email protected]
Our policies-configured in Voyager
Group Study rooms are available to all Faculty, Staff and Students
Three of the four rooms include a new Smart Board with PC and a laptop connection
Reservations may be made for one time slot per day, from 1 to 3 hours
Reservations may be made as much as 2 weeks in advancehttp://library.uta.edu/facilities/enhancedGroupStudy.jsp
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Configuration steps
Lots of SysAdmin configurationCirculation User’s Guide is very helpful
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Create your Item Type
This is not required, as you can configure any item type to be short loanable
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It is possible to have Patron initiated SLs via the OPAC
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Configuration steps
Lots of SysAdmin configurationCirc jobs must be configured on the
server
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Circ jobs on the server
Circjob27 updates the status of current requests and archives expired requests
You can set up a chron run at frequent intervals in order to clear requests We run it every 15 minutes
Voyager 7.1 Technical User’s Guide, Chapter 8, Circulation Batch Jobs
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Configuration steps
Lots of SysAdmin configurationCirc jobs must be configured on the
serverThen there are dynamic web pages to
create
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How users know availability
http://library.uta.edu/JDBC/study/rooms.jsp
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How to create this page
http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/rooms/As always, the code for creating this
dynamic web page is thereThere is a stand-alone version, andA web service versionDoran’s comments on this code - Note that this
is not a "plug-and-play" type of application: adapting it would require significant code wrangling. It is also not an application that I intend to support -- it is being made available "as is".
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Configuration steps
Lots of SysAdmin configurationCirc jobs must be configured on the
serverThen there are dynamic web pages to
createThen you create the items in Circ
Heather Scalf, Access Services [email protected]
Configuration steps
Lots of SysAdmin configurationCirc jobs must be configured on the
serverThere are dynamic web pages to createThen you create the items in CircNow you are ready to run!
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Pop up Message
If you try to make a reservation and the current day is all booked up, you get this message.
Simply click “OK” and go into the calendar.
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Things that can go wrong
If you have more than one Circ Location open, and you charge/discharge Short Loan items in the wrong one It creates a status of “Item Temporarily
Unavailable” which will prevent future reservations from properly displaying
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Things that can go wrong
If you check items out on the fly, you have to make sure to make them due *on the hour* so as not to confuse the system for the rest of the day
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Things that can go wrong
Patron shows up later than 15 minutes (or whatever time you choose) and their reservation has dropped off, and their room is goneService issue