leihs

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leihs
Developer(s) Zurich University of the Arts
Initial release ~ August 2007 (2007-08) (1.0)[1]
Stable release 7.5.0 / April 16, 2024; 8 months ago (2024-04-16)
Written in Ruby, Shell
Operating system Cross-platform
Available in Multi-lingual
Type Resource booking software
License(s) GNU General Public License v3.0
Website github.com/leihs/leihs/wiki

leihs is a free web-based open-source resource scheduling and management solution developed by the Zurich University of the Arts.

Product history

leihs was conceived as "a web-based system to manage the circulation of items within an organization or institution," specifically designed by the Zurich University of the Art to manage its camerags, lighting equipment, speakers, microphones, and more.[1] Version 1.0 of the solution was created sometime around the summer of 2007, with a German-only user interface.[1] Ramon Cahenzli, one of the lead developers, began a pan-university approach to development of leihs[2], with a 2.0 version in initial development by March 2008.[3] By the late summer of 2008, the university announced that it was working on a rewrite of version 1.x "with a complete restructuring of both the backend and the frontend user interfaces,"[1] though work continued on intermediate version like 1.2 in early 2008.[4] Version 2.0 was finally released on July 27, 2009 via SourceForge.[5] Subsequent 2.x releases occurred from 2009 to 2011[5], before moving to GitHub in October 2012.[6] A version 3.0 was released in November 2013, without release notes as it had "some teething issues," with a formally patched version of 3.0 (as 3.0.4) being released on December 4, 2013.[7] Releases have continued on GitHub since.[8]

Features

The main features of leihs include[9]:

  • account registration
  • resource booking for single or multiple resources
  • resource search
  • support for recurring reservations
  • support for favorites
  • reservation management, including approval, release, and deletion
  • barcode support
  • lock and unlock user reservations
  • single and group role-based access to reservable items
  • model and item management
  • inventory helper for changing multiple items at the same time
  • administrator support
  • audit trail

Hardware/software requirements

For installation requirements, see the leihs hosting guide.

Videos, screenshots, and other media

See the wiki for more on how to access a live demo of the software.

Entities using leihs

Entities using leihs includes[10]:

  • Zürich University of the Arts
  • Bern University of the Arts
  • Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule
  • University of Applied Sciences HTW Chur
  • Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
  • University of Brighton
  • University of Worcester
  • Middle Tennessee State University
  • Fachhochschule Vorarlberg
  • Konstfack Stockholm
  • School of Business and Engineering Vaud HEIG-VD
  • Fachhochschule Kärnten
  • Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen
  • Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
  • Osnabrück University
  • Hochschule Merseburg

Further reading

External links

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "About leihs". leihs wiki. Archived from the original on 25 September 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080925195946/http://code.zhdk.ch/projects/leihs/wiki/About. Retrieved 26 June 2023. 
  2. "(leihs-dev) Hello everybody". The Mail Archive. 5 December 2007. https://www.mail-archive.com/leihs-dev@services.zhdk.ch/msg00000.html. Retrieved 26 June 2023. 
  3. "(leihs-dev) Kick-off for 2.0 development". The Mail Archive. 14 March 2008. https://www.mail-archive.com/leihs-dev@services.zhdk.ch/msg00001.html. Retrieved 26 June 2023. 
  4. "Download". leihs wiki. Archived from the original on 25 September 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080925195956/http://code.zhdk.ch/projects/leihs/wiki/Download. Retrieved 26 June 2023. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 "leihs - files". SourceForge. Archived from the original on 09 May 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110509065847/http://sourceforge.net/projects/leihs/files/leihs. Retrieved 26 June 2023. 
  6. "Moving away from SourceForge". leihs blog. 9 October 2012. https://blog.zhdk.ch/leihs/2012/10/09/moving-away-from-sourceforge/. Retrieved 26 June 2023. 
  7. "leihs 3.0.4 now available". leihs blog. 4 December 2013. https://blog.zhdk.ch/leihs/2013/12/04/leihs-3-0-4-now-available/. Retrieved 26 June 2023. 
  8. "leihs / leihs / releases". GitHub. 9 March 2023. https://github.com/leihs/leihs/releases. Retrieved 26 June 2023. 
  9. "leihs / manual / Home". GitHub. 14 June 2022. https://github.com/leihs/manual/wiki. Retrieved 23 June 2023. 
  10. "Home - References (Who uses leihs?)". leihs wiki. 19 June 2023. https://github.com/leihs/leihs/wiki#references-who-uses-leihs. Retrieved 26 June 2023.