Our institution wants to introduce bookings in Alma for our High Demand loans, which are 3 hours.

The main issue we’ve found is concurrent bookings, see scenarios below, with a 5 minute exclusion set up:

• A books item for 11:40-12:40 - however doesn’t borrow the item within the 5 minute exclusion

• B books item at 11:46, for 11:50-12.50

• A checks out item at 11:53, despite booking for B at 11:50

What is needed is some mechanism for bookings to expire automatically once the exclusion period is reached.