Room booking system is woeful often group study rooms are block booked but empty preventing use by other students. How about you swipe in and out of the room every hour to keep room booked?
Many thanks for your suggestion unfortunately this solution causes more conflict than it solves as we tried this earlier in the year.
Block booking used to be more problem than it is now as we have put in stricter booking specifications.
Length of any booking 1 hour - up to 2 hours may be booked sequentially
Number of bookings per person per week 7 (1hr slots)
https://lrweb.beds.ac.uk/libraryservices/availableservices/bookings/parksquare
During staffed hours
https://lrweb.beds.ac.uk/opening/ps-lrc
if a room is booked but empty please bring it to the attention of staff on the first floor