I agree. We are in a system with 9 branches. I wish there would be a way to tie certain logins with a particular branch. So when that staff member logs in, the system would always show their branch by default--with the ability for them to manually see all branches if they needed to.
For example, on the landing page on the staff side, the "upcoming events" says that it shows "the next year's events for all libraries." Most of our branches are just concerned with what is happening at their branch for the day--not the entire system.

Hard agree, it's more efficient.

If only I could vote for all the staff who asked for this (at least 250). We have more than 20 locations and over 85 rooms. For larger library system, 95% of the time staff are never going to be searching every location or room. The staff user experience involves a lot of extra clicking and majority of our staff greatly dislike pre-selection.

When searching events on the staff side, clicking on the Event Location filter defaults to all locations selected. It would be more efficient if all locations were unselected, and the staff user could use Select All if needed.