Design and Implementation of Library Management System

1 International Journal of Computer Applications (0975 8887). Volume 182 No. 13, September 2018. Design and Implementation of Library Management System Acheampong Samuel Ampofo Godfred Xu He Nanjing University of Post and Nanjing University of Post and Professor Telecommunication Telecommunication Nanjing University of Post and China China Telecommunication China ABSTRACT The project is very useful for those who want to know about The Library Management System is an application for assisting Library Management System . a librarian in managing a book Library in a university. The Library is regarded as the brain of any institute; many System would provide basic set of features to add/update institutes understand the importance of the Library to the members, add/update books, and manage check in growth of the institute and their esteem users specifications for the systems based on the client's statement of (students).

2 LMS support the general requirement of the need. Library Management System is a typical Management Library like acquisition, cataloging, circulation. Information System (MIS), its Development include the establishment and maintenance of back-end database and Library project System that offers many flexible and front-end application development aspects. For the former convenient features, allowing librarians and Library users to require the establishment of data consistency and integrity of maximize time and efficiency. Library System gives the all the strong data security and good libraries. As for the latter detailed information about students, staff and books. It will requires the application fully functional, easy to use and so on. track on the how many books available in Library and books issued to the students. It shows popular book among the Keywords students. It will provide book lost in Library .

3 It keeps the Management System , Data Security, Management information record of the suppliers and book binders. It generates MIS. System reports for Management . Our software is customizable for any 1. INTRODUCTION Library requirement. The project titled Library Management System is Library 2. METHOD AND MATERIALS. Management software for monitoring and controlling the Development Methodology transactions in a Library . The project Library Management In software engineering, a System development methodology System is developed in php, which mainly focuses on basic refers to the framework that is used to structure, plan, and operations in a Library like adding new books, and updating control the process of developing an information System . new information, searching books and members and return Software development methodologies define the processes we books. use to build software. These methodologies are also referred This project of Library Management of gives us the to as Software Development Process Models.

4 Each complete information about the Library . We can enter the methodology follows a series of steps unique to its type, to record of new books and retrieve the details of books ensure success in the process of software development. available in the Library . We can issue the books to the students A software process is a set of related activities that leads to the and maintain their records and can also check how many production of a software product. books are issued and stock available in the Library . In this project we can maintain the late fine of students who returns There are a lot of software processes but they all include four the issued books after the due date. activities: Throughout the project the focus has been on presenting Specification information and comments in an easy and intelligible manner. Development 18. International Journal of Computer Applications (0975 8887).

5 Volume 182 No. 13, September 2018. Validation represented as spiral rather than a sequence of activities and it includes best features from the waterfall and prototyping Evolution models. In addition, it introduces a new component called: These are fundamental to software engineering. A wide risk-assessment. Each loop in the spiral represents a phase, variety of Software Development methodology has evolved thus the first loop might be concerned with System feasibility. over the years. Each of these methodologies has its own The next loop might be concerned with the requirements recognized strengths and weaknesses. The following are the definition and the next with System Design , and the like. most widely used methodologies for software development. Prototyping Method Waterfall Method A prototype is a version of a System or part of the System The waterfall model is a sequential approach, where each that's developed quickly to check the customer's requirements fundamental activity of a process represented as a separate or the feasibility of some Design decisions.

6 Prototypes are phase, arranged in linear order. This model requires planning useful when a customer or the developer is not sure of the and scheduling activities before starting working on them, it is requirements, the algorithms efficiency, some business rules plan-driven. or even response time. Plan-driven process is one in which all the activities are first The four basic process activities of specification, development, planned, and then each progress is measured against the plan. validation, and evolution are organized differently in the The Agile process on the other hand involves planning respective development processes. In the waterfall model, incrementally and it is much easier to change the processes to they are organized in sequence, but are interleaved in reflect a change in requirement. incremental development method. The type of software, the people, and organizational structures involved determines how Incremental Method these activities are carried out.

7 For example, specifications for The Incremental method of development is based on the idea extreme programming are written on cards. Tests are of developing an initial Implementation , exposing this model executable and developed before the program itself. Evolution to user to receive feedback. This model evolves in the form of may involve substantial System restructuring or re-factoring. versions as the requirements change until an acceptable System has been developed. This project uses the Incremental method in developing the application because the preferences of the users keep Spiral Method changing. The spiral model is a risk-driven method where the process is Figure Incremental Development Methodology Database Design computer. Databases are structured to facilitate the storage, Database is any collection of data, or information, that is retrieval, modification, and deletion of data in conjunction specially organized for rapid search and retrieval by a with various data-processing operations.

8 A database is stored 19. International Journal of Computer Applications (0975 8887). Volume 182 No. 13, September 2018. as a file or a set of files on magnetic disk or tape, optical disk, and medium scale businesses that do not really need advanced or some other secondary storage device. The information in functionality on their websites. HTML is free, supports all these files may be broken down into records, each of which browsers on the client's machine, easy to use and understand consists of one or more fields. Fields are the basic units of hence, the choice in building the structure of my web pages. data storage, and each field typically contains information CSS. pertaining to one aspect or attribute of the entity described by Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to the database. Records are also organized into tables that describe the presentation of a document written in HTML or include information about relationships between its various XML (including XML dialects such as SVG or XHTML).

9 CSS. fields. describes how elements should be rendered on screen, on paper, Database Design is a collection of processes that facilitate the in speech, or on other media. CSS is one of the core languages designing, development, Implementation and maintenance of of the open web and is standardized across browsers according enterprise data Management systems. The main objectives of to the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) specification. database designing are to produce logical and physical designs JavaScript models of the proposed database System . JavaScript is a high-level, dynamic, weakly typed, Materials prototype-based, multi-paradigm, and interpreted Development Tools programming language. JavaScript is a full-fledged dynamic In this project, a number of development tools would be programming language that, when applied to an HTML. used to complete this project. They are listed as follow.

10 Document, can provide dynamic interactivity on websites. It would be used in conjunction with Django to ensure validation Php rules on the front-end of the websites. PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor). is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting Bootstrap language that is especially suited for web development and Bootstrap is a free and open-source front-end web framework can be embedded into HTML. The best things in using PHP for designing websites and web applications. It contains HTML. are that it is extremely simple for a newcomer, but offers and CSS based Design templates for typography, forms, buttons, many advanced features for a professional programmer. Don't navigation and other interface components, as well as optional be afraid reading the long list of PHP's features. You can jump JavaScript extensions. Unlike many web frameworks, it in, in a short time, and start writing simple scripts in a few concerns itself with front-end development only.