Library Management System is a term for computer-based system that manage the catalogue of a library. The main purpose of this system is to manage library daily operation efficiently.
Objectives of Library Management System (LMS)
a) To build a system that can receive input and generate automatically output in easy way and short time.
b) To build a monitoring system that is able to monitor and manage all library operations efficiently.
c) Give an opportunity to librarians to reduce mistakes that always happen during manual method.
d) To store properly the library items in order to maintain their security.
e) To enter and preserve details of the various issues and keep a track on their returns.
This system basically has four types of modules that handle daily activities for the library :
a) Manage Account module
b) Search Record Module
c) Book Borrowing System Module
d) Report Generator Module
By using library management system, the operation of borrowing and managing inventories is paperless. This system provides a user-friendly data entry with dropdown button menu, list box and checkbox in purpose to make the input entry easier to understand and use. It is also created to ensure that the library items are stored properly in order to maintain their security.
This system will store all the books and members information that consist book numbers, book titles, author names and racks to the system database. It also provides search function to help students find the book by number of book. Search function will search through the books database to look for the book and view where the book is situated.
For the administrator user, only librarians have access to view or edit data from the system databases. Administrator user will handle administrative functions such as create new LMS user account and decide the number of days allowed for the borrowed books. Users need to enter correct password and user id before they can access to this function. From here, they can add, delete or update the book and borrower database