37
Everybody Wants One! Using Voyager Short Loan to Reserve Group Study Rooms Heather Scalf Assistant Coordinator, Access Services UT Arlington [email protected]
| Date post: | 02-Jan-2016 |
| Category: |
Documents |
| Upload: | dwight-higgins |
| View: | 215 times |
| Download: | 0 times |
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
Heather Scalf, Access Services [email protected]
Configuration steps
Lots of SysAdmin configurationCirculation User’s Guide is very helpful
Heather Scalf, Access Services [email protected]
Create your Item Type
This is not required, as you can configure any item type to be short loanable
Heather Scalf, Access Services [email protected]
It is possible to have Patron initiated SLs via the OPAC
Heather Scalf, Access Services [email protected]
Configuration steps
Lots of SysAdmin configurationCirc jobs must be configured on the
server
Heather Scalf, Access Services [email protected]
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
Heather Scalf, Access Services [email protected]
Configuration steps
Lots of SysAdmin configurationCirc jobs must be configured on the
serverThen there are dynamic web pages to
create
Heather Scalf, Access Services [email protected]
How users know availability
http://library.uta.edu/JDBC/study/rooms.jsp
Heather Scalf, Access Services [email protected]
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".
Heather Scalf, Access Services [email protected]
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!
Heather Scalf, Access Services [email protected]
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.
Heather Scalf, Access Services [email protected]
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
Heather Scalf, Access Services [email protected]
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
Heather Scalf, Access Services [email protected]
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
![Voyager price proposal · Web viewDear [Greeting] Voyager price proposal Thank you for your interest in Voyager as your future navigation management solution. Voyager is widely recognised](https://static.documents.pub/doc/80x56/612245d99494a012852d3f53/voyager-price-proposal-web-view-dear-greeting-voyager-price-proposal-thank-you.jpg)
