DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ONLINE LIBRARY SYSTEM

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.

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.

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 Oline 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.

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...