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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, > > > > 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! > > > > Michael Schofield(@nova.edu) | @gollydamn | Front-End Librarian à > www.ns4lib.com > > > > > -- Ellen Knowlton Wilson Instructional Services Librarian Room 250, University Library University of South Alabama 5901 USA Drive North Mobile, AL 36688 (251) 460-6045 Please note new email address: [log in to unmask]