Web-Based Library

INTRODUCTION :

This is an Intranet based application that can be accessed throughout the web. This system can be used to search for all books, search books based on author, search books  based on title  and reserve books,  find out book  is in available state or not. This is one integrated system that contains both the user component and the librarian component.

The Librarian is granted administrative powers and can perform all the actions such as adding new books to the library, updating existing books, deleting books, see the students requests and issuing books, renewal & returning of books and managing all the accounts. Librarian can access the account of any user and modify it.

Scope :

The proposed system targets the information contained in the library covers the various books that are referred by the department for its manual reports. The present system considers only works of information contained in the library covers the various books that are referred by the department for its smooth running. Though the interaction with the external systems is considered, in the present release only their abstract interface is specified but not implemented.

Purpose

The main purpose of the web-based Library is students can search the book and reserving the books if it is in available state directly through web, in this there is no need to librarian help for searching books and also to reduce the work of the librarian.

Existing System:

This application maintains the details of books like what type of books are there, what books are in available state, and how many books are there for same title of different authors. This information is available only for librarian not for students.

The library management system is maintained manually till now, so the following disadvantages are occurred.

1. Wastage of time.

2.  Work delay.

3. Decrease in the performance of the system.

4. More man power is required.

Proposed System:

In this system students are no need to go to library  for reserving  book, just go to internet and search what type of books are there in library, search books based on author, search books based on title and see what books are in available state. In this way select which book we want  and identify the book id and reserve that book through reservation form.

If more than one person requesting for single book, then the librarian see the list of reservation forms and issue the books based on First In First Out order of reservation forms , and rejecting the other students requests.

In this proposed the work delay and wastage of time will be redused.

PROJECT MMODULES:

In this project  there are mainly two modules are there.They are,

1.Student.

2.Librarian.

Student:

In this module student plays 4 roles,They are,

a)     View list of all books.

b)    View list of books based on title.

c)     View list of books based on author.

d)    Reserve book.

Librarian:

In this module librarian plays 14 roles,They are,

a)     Add new book details.

b)    Update existing book details.

c)     Delete book details.

d)    List all books.

e)     List books based on title.

f)      List books based on author.

g)     Issue book.

h)    Renewal book.

i)       Return book.

j)       List of reservation forms.

k)     List of renewal books.

l)       List of issue books.

m)  List of all students.

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIRMENTS:

Software requirements:

Technologies            :            J2SDK 1.4,  JDBC, SERVLETS, JSP.

Database                  :          Oracle 10g.    

Operating System     :            Windows 2000.

Web Server                       :              Apache Tomcat 5.0.

Hardware requirements:

Processor                                :           Intel P-III based system(min).

Processor Speed                    :           250 MHz to 833MHz.

RAM                                     :            256 MB to 1GB.

Key Board                           :          101 Standard(min).