[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Booking in 2.0.

[Cynthia Williamson]

Thomas, you've got it right.  You can book a resource for a specific,
pick-up time & date and time period.  When we worked with Equinox to develop
the booking module, we were thinking of a booking as a glorified or enhanced
hold.  At our library we buy all of the DVDs used by instructors in the
classroom - instructors plan specific classes to show them and need to be
sure they'll have them - hence the need for more than a regular hold.  In
some cases an extended loan period would probably do the trick but we have
many programs that share resources amongst several instructors so the
booking system works best for them.
The booking module would also be helpful for room and equipment booking - it
needs some tweaks to improve it for those uses but you could do it now.

Cheers, Cynthia
Mohawk College
Hamilton, ON

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Thomas Berezansky <tsbere at mvlc.org> wrote:

> My understanding (someone can correct me if I am wrong):
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> A hold is a queue. When you get it depends on the people in front of you,
> the supply, and the demand. Whether you get it the next day, in a month, in
> a year, it is more when your turn comes up.
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> A booking is a blocked out time period. You *will* get it for July 18th
> through July 29th type deal.
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> I see bookings as being useful for more easily controlled things (say, book
> club kits, computers, museum passes, possibly even meeting rooms) where you
> don't normally have them on the shelf for anyone to pick up. But that is me.
>
> Thomas Berezansky
> Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
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> Quoting Chris Maas <chrism at roadrunner.com>:
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>  Okay, really simple (stupid) question. ..    What's the difference between
>> booking and holds?   I think I know what a "hold" does; I don't understand
>> how a "booking" is differently useful.
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