Configuring Reading Rooms
Create and edit reading rooms in the Customization Manager — the single tabbed form that controls a room's name, seats, sign-in locations, open hours, closures, and appointment policies.
Managing Appointment Exceptions and Closures
How to close a reading room or reduce its appointment capacity for specific dates and times — holidays, class visits, training — using the Exceptions tab on a reading room.
Configuring Reading Room Open Hours
Set the days and times a reading room accepts appointments by editing its Open Hours, the weekly schedule that defines when patrons can book.
Setting Up Appointment Status Policies
Configure a reading room's appointment and request scheduling rules per user status — lead times, confirmation, reminders, and notifications — on the Policies tab.
Configuring Reading Room Locations
How to set up the seats, tables, or areas within a reading room so staff can record exactly where a researcher is sitting at sign-in.
Visit Rooms (Walk-In Reading Rooms)
What visit rooms are, how to edit their name and seats, and how to promote one to a full appointment reading room when a site starts scheduling visits.
Appointment Confirmation and Notification Settings
How appointment confirmation works in Aeon 7 — the per-room settings that decide whether patron bookings need staff review, and how the confirmation, cancellation, and reminder emails are chosen and sent.
The Local Info Table
How to maintain your institution's contact details in the Local Info table so email and print templates fill in the right name, address, and phone — including per-site overrides.