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We also use Yahoo calendars.  We have one for each instrument in the facility.  Access can be restricted to invitees only.  In our facility these are the folks who have been trained to be independent users.  These calendars work well for booking but the final monitor of usage is the server to which all our instruments are connected.  The users use the same Yahoo ID and passwords to login at the instrument.  Through this mechanism we know who logged in, which instrument they are using, when they login, which programs are being used, and when the log out.  Our billing is based on what they actually use not was is on the booking calendar.  This system has been in place for at least 6 years and it works.


-----Original Message-----
From: Confocal Microscopy List on behalf of Scott Howell
Sent: Mon 2/18/2008 7:16 AM
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Subject: Re: Online booking systems for microsccopy facilities
 
Search the CONFOCAL archive at
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We use Yahoo calender and it works fine for our purposes. 

Scott J. Howell, Ph.D.
Manager, Imaging Module
Visual Sciences Research Center
Case Western Reserve University
2085 Adelbert Rd. 
Institute of Pathology Room 106
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
216-368-2300
http://www.case.edu/med/vsrc/

----- Original Message -----
From: Graham Wright <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, February 18, 2008 5:01 am
Subject: Online booking systems for microsccopy facilities
To: [log in to unmask]

> Search the CONFOCAL archive at
> http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal
> 
> Hello,
> I'm interested in upgrading our online booking system and wondered 
> what advice the listers could offer in this respect? Any 
> recommended systems, or ones to avoid?
> It will be for a multi-user (all internal) microscopy facility (7 
> confocals and image analysis computers), but may be expanded to 
> include a few EMs and possibly even seminar rooms, etc.
> Thanks in advance for you help.
> Graham
> 
> -----
> Dr Graham Wright
> Microscopy & Imaging Facility
> 
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> National University of Singapore
> Singapore 117604
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