diff --git a/koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/prog/en/opac-reserve.tmpl b/koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/prog/en/opac-reserve.tmpl
index e4c1485337..ae1745e329 100644
--- a/koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/prog/en/opac-reserve.tmpl
+++ b/koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/prog/en/opac-reserve.tmpl
@@ -139,8 +139,13 @@
         <input type="hidden" name="biblioitem" value="<!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="biblioitemnumber" -->" />
         <!-- /TMPL_LOOP --> <!-- bibitemloop -->
         <p>Pick up from:<select name="branch" id="branch">
-                    <option>-- Please choose your branch --</option>
-                    <!-- TMPL_LOOP NAME="CGIbranch" --><option value="<!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="value" -->"><!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="branch" --></option><!-- /TMPL_LOOP -->
+                    <!-- TMPL_LOOP NAME="CGIbranch" -->
+                        <!-- TMPL_IF name="selected" -->
+                            <option value="<!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="value" -->" selected="selected"><!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="branch" --></option>
+                        <!-- TMPL_ELSE -->
+                            <option value="<!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="value" -->"><!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="branch" --></option>
+                        <!-- /TMPL_IF -->
+                    <!-- /TMPL_LOOP -->
             </select>
         </p>
         <input type="submit" value="Place Hold" />
diff --git a/opac/opac-reserve.pl b/opac/opac-reserve.pl
index 2b59c461cc..90008f31a5 100755
--- a/opac/opac-reserve.pl
+++ b/opac/opac-reserve.pl
@@ -90,6 +90,10 @@ foreach my $branch ( keys %$branches ) {
         my %line;
         $line{branch} = $branches->{$branch}->{'branchname'};
         $line{value}  = $branch;
+        warn "===>".$line{value}." eq ".C4::Context->userenv->{'branch'};
+        if ($line{value} eq C4::Context->userenv->{'branch'}) {
+            $line{selected} = 1;
+        }
         push @CGIbranchlooparray, \%line;
     }
 }