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Electronic booking system for loaning equipment - Help & advice appreciated

Can anyone help one of our colleagues with advice or experiences on the best electronic booking system for equipment? 

I am aware of several systems, Connect2 (Lorenbergs) and Softlink to name  just two

 Anyone able to help at all?  - please respond on here initially

thanks

Phil

 

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Hi Phil , hee in the Digital Arts Cente at the University of Worcester we use the Leihs system  which is a  'free' open source  booking system. We have been using it for about 6 years, we've modified it so that it works with our Universitys authentication system and  'myfare' system (an RF ID reader for validating students via their  i.d cards)  EVen though its  free   don't  think for  one minute that its  a  poor cousing  of a paid  system, we  find it  does  everything  the other systesms do and is easy to  use.

You can check out a  demo of the  system hear  although  bare in mind  that  it looks a  bit  bare and  sometimes the images  dont load onthe  demo not  sure  why not.  Anyway I can highly recomend it. Go  to the demo and login as a  

Manager

Username: manager_user
Password: password

All the details on on the  website. I'll be happy to do my best to answer any of your questions.  i think there is also  another system out there  called  Liberty? but I think this  might be more about scheduling.   Hope this is  useful Phil.

Andy

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Opps!  sorry  heres the link to  the Leihs website

https://github.com/leihs/leihs/wiki