Synopsis of Library Management System
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The "Library Management System" has been developed to override the problems
prevailing in the practicing manual system. This software is supported to eliminate and
in some cases reduce the hardships faced by this existing system. Moreover this
system is designed for the particular need of the company to carry out operations in a
smooth and effective manner.
The application is reduced as much as possible to avoid errors while entering the data.
It also provides error message while entering invalid data. No formal knowledge is
needed for the user to use this system. Thus by this all it proves it is user-friendly.
Library Management System , as described above, can lead to error free, secure,
reliable and fast management system. It can assist the user to concentrate on their
other activities rather to concentrate on the record keeping. Thus it will help organization
in better utilization of resources.
Every organization, whether big or small, has challenges to overcome and managing
the informations of Books, Student, Librarian, Address, Member. Every Library
Management System has different Student needs, therefore we design exclusive
employee management systems that are adapted to your managerial requirements.
This is designed to assist in strategic planning, and will help you ensure that your
organization is equipped with the right level of information and details for your future
goals. Also, for those busy executive who are always on the go, our systems come with
remote access features, which will allow you to manage your workforce anytime, at all
times. These systems will ultimately allow you to better manage resources.
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Library Management System, as described above, can lead to error free, secure,
reliable and fast management system. It can assist the user to concentrate on their
other activities rather to concentrate on the record keeping. Thus it will help organization
in better utilization of resources. The organization can maintain computerized records
without redundant entries. That means that one need not be distracted by information
that is not relevant, while being able to reach the information.
The aim is to automate its existing manual system by the help of computerized
equipments and full-fledged computer software, fulfilling their requirements, so that their
valuable data/information can be stored for a longer period with easy accessing and
manipulation of the same. Basically the project describes how to manage for good
performance and better services for the clients.
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Library Management System also manage the Address details online for
Librarian details, Member details, Student.
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It may help collecting perfect management in details. In a very short time, the
collection will be obvious, simple and sensible. It will help a person to know the
management of passed year perfectly and vividly. It also helps in current all works
relative to Library Management System. It will be also reduced the cost of collecting the
management & collection procedure will go on smoothly.
In computer system the person has to fill the various forms & number of copies of
the forms can be easily generated at a time.
In computer system, it is not necessary to create the manifest but we can directly
print it, which saves our time.
To assist the staff in capturing the effort spent on their respective working areas.
To utilize resources in an efficient manner by increasing their productivity through
automation.
The system generates types of information that can be used for various
purposes.
It satisfy the user requirement
Be easy to understand by the user and operator
Be easy to operate
Have a good user interface
Be expandable
Delivered on schedule within the budget.
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You can also export the report into csv format for Student, Books, Member
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All the fields such as Student, Issues, Member are validated and does not take
invalid values
Each form for Student, Books,Address can not accept blank value fields
Preparation of the possible test data with all the validation checks.
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The software quality plan we will use the following SQA Strategy:
In the first step, we will select the test factors and rank them. The selected test
factors such as reliability, maintainability, portability or etc, will be placed in the
matrix according to their ranks.
The second step is for identifying the phases of the development process. The
phase should be recorded in the matrix.
The third step is that identifying the business risks of the software deliverables.
The risks will be ranked into three ranks such as high, medium and low.
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Identification of need:
The old manual system was suffering from a series of drawbacks. Since whole of
the system was to be maintained with hands the process of keeping, maintaining and
retrieving the information was very tedious and lengthy. The records were never used to
be in a systematic order. there used to be lots of difficulties in associating any particular
transaction with a particular context. If any information was to be found it was required
to go through the different registers, documents there would never exist anything like
report generation. There would always be unnecessary consumption of time while
entering records and retrieving records. One more problem was that it was very difficult
to find errors while entering the records. Once the records were entered it was very
difficult to update these records.
The reason behind it is that there is lot of information to be maintained and have
to be kept in mind while running the business .For this reason we have provided
features Present system is partially automated (computerized), actually existing system
is quite laborious as one has to enter same information at three different places.
Documents and reports that must be provided by the new system: there can also
be few reports, which can help management in decision-making and cost
controlling, but since these reports do not get required attention, such kind of
reports and information were also identified and given required attention.
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information, which will be at the click of the mouse. So the proposed system helps
in saving the time in different operations and making information flow easy giving
valuable reports.
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Feasibility Study:
After doing the project Library Management System, study and analyzing all the
existing or required functionalities of the system, the next task is to do the feasibility
study for the project. All projects are feasible - given unlimited resources and infinite
time.
Feasibility study includes consideration of all the possible ways to provide a solution to
the given problem. The proposed solution should satisfy all the user requirements and
should be flexible enough so that future changes can be easily done based on the
future upcoming requirements.
A. Economical Feasibility
This is a very important aspect to be considered while developing a project. We
decided the technology based on minimum possible cost factor.
All hardware and software cost has to be borne by the organization.
Overall we have estimated that the benefits the organization is going to receive
from the proposed system will surely overcome the initial costs and the later on
running cost for system.
B. Technical Feasibility
This included the study of function, performance and constraints that may affect
the ability to achieve an acceptable system. For this feasibility study, we studied
complete functionality to be provided in the system, as described in the System
Requirement Specification (SRS), and checked if everything was possible using
different type of frontend and backend plaformst.
C. Operational Feasibility
No doubt the proposed system is fully GUI based that is very user friendly and all
inputs to be taken all self-explanatory even to a layman. Besides, a proper training has
been conducted to let know the essence of the system to the users so that they feel
comfortable with new system. As far our study is concerned the clients are comfortable
and happy as the system has cut down their loads and doing.
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In this phase, a logical system is built which fulfils the given requirements. Design
phase of software development deals with transforming the clients’s requirements into a
logically working system. Normally, design is performed in the following in the following
two steps:
The general tasks involved in the design process are the following:
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User Interface Design is concerned with the dialogue between a user and the
computer. It is concerned with everything from starting the system or logging into the
system to the eventually presentation of desired inputs and outputs. The overall flow of
The following steps are various guidelines for User Interface Design:
5. Default values for fields and answers to be entered by the user should be
specified.
7. The system user should never get an operating system message or fatal error.
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The first step in the system development life cycle is the preliminary investigation
to determine the feasibility of the system. The purpose of the preliminary investigation is
to evaluate project requests. It is not a design study nor does it include the collection of
details to describe the business system in all respect. Rather, it is the collecting of
information that helps committee members to evaluate the merits of the project request
and make an informed judgment about the feasibility of the proposed project.
Benefit to Organization
The initial cost of setting up the system will include the cost of hardware software
(OS, add-on software, utilities) & labour (setup & maintenance). The same has to bear
by the organization.
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Running Cost
Besides, the initial cost the long term cost will include the running cost for the
system including the AMC, stationary charges, cost for human resources, cost for
update/renewal of various related software.
The users along with the administrator need to be trained at the time of
implementation of the system for smooth running of the system. The client will provide
the training site.
We talked to the management people who were managing a the financial issues
of the center, the staff who were keeping the records in lots of registers and the
reporting manager regarding their existing system, their requirements and their
expectations from the new proposed system. Then, we did the system study of the
entire system based on their requirements and the additional features they wanted to
incorporate in this system.
Reliable, accurate and secure data was also considered to be a complex task
without this proposed system. Because there was no such record for keeping track of all
the activities, which was done by the Library Management System on the daily basis.
The new system proposed and then developed by me will ease the task of the
organization in consideration. It will be helpful in generating the required reports by the
staff, which will help them to track their progress and services.
Thus, it will ease the task of Management to a great extent as all the major
activities to be performed, are computerized through this system.
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Project Category
RDBMSs have become a predominant choice for the storage of information in new
databases used for financial records, manufacturing and logistical information,
personnel data, and much more since the 1980s. Relational databases have often
replaced legacy hierarchical databases and network databases because they are easier
to understand and use. However, relational databases have been challenged by object
databases, which were introduced in an attempt to address the object-relational
impedance mismatch in relational database, and XML databases.
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Implementation Methodology:
Model View Controller or MVC as it is popularly called, is a software design pattern for
developing web applications. A Model View Controller pattern is made up of the
following three parts:
Model - The lowest level of the pattern which is responsible for maintaining data.
View - This is responsible for displaying all or a portion of the data to the user.
Controller - Software Code that controls the interactions between the Model and
View.
MVC is popular as it isolates the application logic from the user interface layer and
supports separation of concerns. Here the Controller receives all requests for the
application and then works with the Model to prepare any data needed by the View. The
View then uses the data prepared by the Controller to generate a final presentable
response. The MVC abstraction can be graphically represented as follows.
MVC (Model View Controller Flow) Diagram
Software
Requirements:
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Linux
Language Java 2 Runtime Environment
Database MySQL Server
Browser Any of Mozilla, Opera, Chrome etc
Web Server Tomcat 7
Software Development Kit Java JDK 1.7 or Above
Scripting Language Enable JSP (Java Server Pages)
Database JDBC Driver MySQL Jconnector
Hardware Requirements:
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System Analysis:
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Data Dictionary:
This is normally represented as the data about data. It is also termed as metadata
some times which gives the data about the data stored in the database. It defines each
data term encountered during the analysis and design of a new system. Data elements
can describe files or the processes.
= equivalent to
+ and
[] either/ or
() Optional entry
Following are some rules, which defines the construction of data dictionary
entries:
1. Words should be defined to understand for what they need and not the
variable need by which they may be described in the program .
2. Each word must be unique. We cannot have two definition of the
same client.
3. Aliases or synonyms are allowed when two or more enters shows
the same meaning. For example a vendor number may also be called as
customer number.
4. A self-defining word should not be decomposed. It means that the reduction
of any information in to subpart should be done only if it is really required
that is it is not easy to understand directly.
Data dictionary includes information such as the number of records in file, the
frequency a process will run, security factor like pass word which user must enter
to get excess to the information.
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Our project is only a humble venture to satisfy the needs to manage their project
work. Several user friendly coding have also adopted. This package shall prove to be a
powerful package in satisfying all the requirements of the school. The objective of
software planning is to provide a frame work that enables the manger to make
reasonable estimates made within a limited time frame at the beginning of the software
project and should be updated regularly as the project progresses.
A description of the background and context of the project and its relation to work
already done in the area.
Made statement of the aims and objectives of the project.
The description of Purpose, Scope, and applicability.
We define the problem on which we are working in the project.
We describe the requirement Specifications of the system and the actions that
can be done on these things.
We understand the problem domain and produce a model of the system, which
describes operations that can be performed on the system.
We included features and operations in detail, including screen layouts.
We designed user interface and security issues related to system.
Finally the system is implemented and tested according to test cases.
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In a nutshell, it can be summarized that the future scope of the project circles
around maintaining information regarding:
The above mentioned points are the enhancements which can be done to increase
the applicability and usage of this project. Here we can maintain the records of Student
and Books. Also, as it can be seen that now-a-days the players are versatile, i.e. so
there is a scope for introducing a method to maintain the Library Management System.
Enhancements can be done to maintain all the Student, Books, Issues, Librarian,
Member.
We have left all the options open so that if there is any other future requirement
in the system by the user for the enhancement of the system then it is possible to
implement them.In the last we would like to thanks all the persons involved in the
development of the system directly or indirectly. We hope that the project will serve its
purpose for which it is develop there by underlining success of process.
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Although I have put my best efforts to make the software flexible, easy to operate
but limitations cannot be ruled out even by me. Though the software presents a broad
range of options to its users some intricate options could not be covered into it; partly
because of logistic and partly due to lack of sophistication. Paucity of time was also
major constraint, thus it was not possible to make the software foolproof and dynamic.
Lack of time also compelled me to ignore some part such as storing old result of the
candidate etc.
Considerable efforts have made the software easy to operate even for the people
not related to the field of computers but it is acknowledged that a layman may find it a
bit problematic at the first instance. The user is provided help at each step for his
convenience in working with the software.
Excel export has not been developed for Student, Books due to some criticality.
The transactions are executed in off-line mode, hence on-line data for Issues,
Librarian capture and modification is not possible.
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