Powerful integrated booking solutions affirm your status as a well-resourced, professional institution, enhancing resource discoverability and maximising return on investment. Not least, it pays huge dividends in student satisfaction. Find out what our solutions can do for you…
Connect2 is the market leader for online equipment booking, checkin/out workflows and inventory tracking. It is highly developed to bring clarity, order and access to resources, no matter how numerous or dispersed they may be throughout your institution.
The system ensures that each user accesses only those items that they are authorised to borrow. Meanwhile the self-service functionality vastly alleviates the admin burden on staff for managing bookings and loans. Inventory management and tracking is automated, and equipment availability is improved. Not least, missing equipment is more quickly recovered and late returns are greatly reduced through automated communications and optional penalties.
Find out more about connect2 online resource booking software for equipment and media stores.
You’ll find that usage of equipment and other resources starts to optimise as access and availability improves. Useful usage reporting is available by resource type or site, to help track progress. It also provides supporting data to making inventory decisions such as new purchases of items in heavy demand.
The system also gives useful overviews to managers for day-to-day staffing decisions, and for knowing which resources can be freed up for other uses.
The ability to improve room access – and occupancy rates - comes with connect2 room booking functionality. Rooms can be reserved using the self-service online interface, with booking rules applied to ensure fair access.
Students and staff are supported in booking the right room for their needs due to the highly visual booking experience and availability of relevant search criteria and resource information. Room bookings and meeting information can be displayed on digital signage.
Usage reporting will enable you to track improved occupancy of rooms, while flexibility in cancellation workflows ensures that rooms are freed up for others wherever possible.
Go to the Room booking solution page for further information.
Our leading PC reservation software, netloan, enables easy access to computers in your labs or libraries by 24/7 online booking. Sessions are controllable by length and frequency ensuring fair access to resources. With authentication via Active Directory or the LMS, all usage is trackable for identification of users when needed, application of booking rules, communication and reporting.
Netloan has a wealth of session management features– click to find out more.
Choosing Lorensbergs software ensures you get the support you require, when you need it. Our consultants and engineers have long experience in supporting our customers as they transition to smarter ways of managing resources and engaging with students.
Find out more from our Customers page.
Lorensbergs talks to the Central Library staff at Imperial College London to find out how they manage both study room bookings and workshop registrations and attendance using the connect2 solution.
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Coventry University kindly invited the connect2 team to spend time with them to get invaluable feedback.
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Co-ordinator at Centre for Academic Writing,
Coventry University
Students have welcomed the opportunity to book online, and the admin team find connect2 very intuitive.
Students can get the equipment and facilities they want when they want it and they can plan in advance. It presents our service in a more professional way and that in turn leads the students to operate in a more professional way, reflecting the industry that they are then hopefully going to be working within.
The reporting functionality is very good. You can really segment down to the item level and see usage for a specific timeframe.
The Lorensbergs team are ready to answer your questions and provide you with additional information.
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