DESIGN AND
IMPLEMENTATION OF ONLINE LIBRARY SYSTEM
Abstract
An Online
resource Library system is a formal collection of information, stored in a soft
format, where students or users can have access over the network, together with
associated services. A repository service for storing and managing digital
objects, the electronic resources solve storage problems and control the flood
of information, print sources are being digitized. This project work shows the
implementation of a practical resource library where books are been made
available in soft copies, the users can have access to the library from
anywhere and any point in time, it serve multiple numbers of students/users at
same time. It comprises of several modules developed with ASP.NET with C# and
MySQL. The administrator of the system is responsible for adding and managing
of e-books in the library system, while the users/students browse for books at
their conveniences.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 LIBRARY
SYSTEM
A library can be
defined as a room or building where books are kept and referenced. It is an
area of multifarious activity on book management. A library as a repository of
knowledge, houses collections of books, both reference and general, technical
reports, periodicals, journals, conference proceedings and the likes.
Consequently, truth and knowledge can be found and acquired from the library
through the aforementioned sources. The information contents of any of the
collections can be recorded on microfilms, audiotapes, microchips and other
materials traditionally kept in the library, which is charged with the
responsibility of acquiring, organizing, maintaining, and judicial circulation
of the books and other library materials through the various sections of the
library, for efficient use of the library by the users.
The acquisition,
cataloguing, bindery and circulation sections of the library undertake the
acquiring, organizing, maintaining and circulation of the books/library
materials respectively. When the library through the acquisition section of the
library acquires a book, its record is taken and accession number is given to
the book after which the book will be sent to cataloguing section of the
library. Under this section, the book will be carefully studied and given
catalogue number before it will be sent to circulation section of the library
as the case may be. The circulation section is responsible for circulation or
distribution of books.
This section
also arranges the consulted books in the shelves.
There are other
sections like reference section, which provides reference questions and
bibliographic service, and serial section where periodical, journals and
related materials are kept. The library also houses special collections and
also operates circulation control in which books are lent to users. In fact it
is indeed a place of multifarious activities on book management.
1.2 STATEMENT OF
PROBLEM
In human
endeavors, there are a lot of developments, researches, and discoveries, which
result in multifarious production of publications and library materials. These
have brought increase in complexity of library system and its operations.
Based on these,
a number of problems are facing the library systems, which include:
(i) Unnecessary
delay in library processes.
(ii) High cost
of staff recruitment and maintenance.
(iii) Error
prone operations/processes.
(iv)
Inefficiency in library operation.
(v) Too many
paper work and replication of data on multiple pieces of paper.
(vi) Unreliable
card catalogue system.
(vii) Mutilation
of books by students i.e. students tear/hide books.
1.3 OBJECTIVE OF
THE STUDY
There is hardly
any aspect of human endeavor that is today not being assisted by
computerization. The objective of this project: Design and Implementation of
Olnine Library Services System with a reference to Caritas University Library.
The application program developed in this research essentially monitors and
keep records of the individual book movement together with the operations going
on in various sections of the library particularly concerned with book control.
These operations include book lending, returning of the borrowed books,
reservation of books, acquisition processes, registration of users and other related
activities in Library management system.
In this study
therefore, the researchers hope to accomplish the following objectives:
1. To design a better way of avoiding loss of
books in the library.
2. To solve the problem of delay in locating
books.
3. Assist the Liberian to carry out library
operations more effectively.
4. Eliminate manual operations in the library.
5. To achieve high efficiency in the library
services.
1.4 SCOPE OF THE
STUDY
This project
looks into the processes involved in keeping tracks of the books in the library
system. The researchers concentrated on the operations going on in the
Acquisition, cataloging and most especially, circulation sections in the
library.
1.5 SIGNIFICANCE
OF THE STUDY
The study gave
birth to a new system Online Library Services System) designed to bring
efficiency in the library system operations. It will eliminate some of the
problems associated with the old (manual) system of library management, which
include cost of equipment and staff maintenance and also allow institutions to
manage the affairs of libraries easily.
1.6 LIMITATION
OF THE STUDY
This study will
not look in detail into other sections of the library except the only three sections
aforementioned. The intuitive works like reading of a book before
classification and technical work like ownership stamping conveyance of books
etc, this section is not part of this study.
TOPIC: DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ONLINE LIBRARY SYSTEM
Chapters: 1 - 5
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