I'd be inclined to go with "study," since that's the function the users
care about. That said, if your students are like ours, they are not going
to pay one bit of attention to the name of the link. I'm amazed how many
clicks students will go through to get to their university email, for
example.

Ellen


On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Michael Schofield <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> What’s up everyone,
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>
>
> We are homegrowing a study room reservation system and we’re within a week
> of making it live—but still in beta—to the public. Right now, on our
> staging
> box, our URI looks like something.library.nova.edu/room-res. /room-res
> doesn’t mean anything, to me. The public URI will be similarly long, like
> somethingelse.library.nova.edu/whatever.
>
>
>
> Any recommendations or experience with your own reservation links? IMHO, it
> should be simple, since the link is already going to be on the long end.
> Right now I’m vying for /reservations, but TBH this system is just for
> public study rooms and not for our larger conference rooms – I’m not sure
> our primary users [the students and faculty] will care, but we’ll
> definitely
> be reminded of that technicality by other librarians J. I don’t like
> /studyrooms, but it’s the best I’ve got since I’m avoiding hyphens.
>
>
>
> Just picking your brains. Thanks!
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>
>
> Michael Schofield(@nova.edu) | @gollydamn | Front-End Librarian à
> www.ns4lib.com
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University of South Alabama
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