In today’s world of technology, education and anything related to it has been shifted to electronic/computerized environment.
So, the papers and manual system became almost outdated due to its time consuming and inflexibility.
Computerized systems is today’s norm. The workload libraries had become very difficult to manage the students order and books booked by them, that’s when library management systems comes into the plot.
A flexible, easy to use, very friendly and cost-effective system that off-loads the hard work done by librarians.
Library management system (LMS) is a ground-breaking and state-of-the-art software developed to maintain and manage the basic catalog functions of library.
LMS is the foundation of the library, providing the basis from which marketing information, administrative tasks, customer communications and service delivery all run.
This software had very many features which represent its functionalities, security, performance and efficiency.
It uses PHP as its main developed language and MYSQL as back-end database.
It has Insertion to database module, where authentication, authorization, retrieval of data, saving data all happens.
User friendly screens: a very attractive and easy to understand screens which you will need no experience to communicate with the system.
Search engines: searching any resource from using search engine and you will be provided your results instantly without delay.
Borrowing a list of books: pick a book your’e interested in and take it with you
This person happens to be the person who controls the whole system; He is able to insert new books into the system so that any student can get their satisfied book through a search engine.
Update books so that any books that are recently there can be updated according per student’s wish of getting and update version of the same book.
Delete any current books that are there or more over- remover or any students.
Display a list of possibly downloadable books form the bank book in the admin panel.
Manage students by deleting, adding, activating and deactivating as well.
Student has to register to the system before logging in by a means of filling a form and providing credentials like — Username, Email and passwords which will be saved in back-end database.
Once the student is registered, he/she can carry login and carry out their rightfully owned functions and privileges.
Every student has a dashboard, when he can perform functions like :-