Library Management For Universities
Having access to a resourceful and book jammed library is known as a prominent step for information development of knowledge seekers and plays a vital rule in education and research. Recognizing this important feature for knowledge development especially in higher education section prompted us to create an ultra-systematic library system for facilitation of fast accessing to the needed source for research and study. This project conquers the current challenging problem existing in University Libraries and it's manually workflow fulfilled procedure by introducing and implementing a systematic solution for each one of the existing problem which will lead to reduction and overcoming the problems and challenges. Generally, the Library Management System is aimed to substitute the existing classical and wrecked paper-based library system of University Library enabling the library members to perform all the specified duties assigned to a library member in most effective manner. Implementation of this project enables the library staff (librarian) to make entry of new library resources i.e. books, eBooks, members, announcements and etc. as well as updating, deleting and issuing a book to a member, find out details of library resources such as total number of books and members accurately for example, members by their gender, faculties, departments and books which are issued to members and did not return on time and many more. The library members are able to use this project to find out details of all the books which are present currently in the library and determining whether they are exist inside the library or borrowed by library members and the due time for returning the borrowed book and etc.

User Roles And Definition

There are different possible roles for accessing and being connected to libraries which are as follow:

Student: If you want to access the libraries with the privilege of a student you are able to search and request for the book you want no matter whether you are pending or returned.
Lecturer: At the moment the one with the lecturer privilege has the same right as a student but in the near future he will be considered with more privilege on the system like: extendibility in lending duration and etc.
Librarian: Users with privilege of librarians could have access to the most features of the system and are authorized to manage library resources, members, books, eBooks, new, and etc.
Administrator: While you enter the system or have access to the system with the privilege of the administrator you are able to manipulate all of the library resources for example you are authorized to even backing and restoring the data up in future and etc. libraries at a Glance

The key Features Of Library Are As Follows:

Profile section: as a user (with any privilege) you can access your account information and edit or delete some of your relevant information like changing your password, email, photo and etc.
Service section: This section refers to the library administrators through which they are able to manage their own resources i.e. library members, books, depositing library resources to the members, customizing the library information, policy, services, email and etc. Last but not least can view list of users whose time for returning the borrowed books has expired and they haven’t returned the book yet which will have great effect for best supervision and uniformity.
Master section: This is also a section referred to the administrators of the library that enables them to manage the master information like: book authors, publishers, categories, and etc… which are needed for identifying the books and library members
Statistic and Summary: This section is one of the most useful parts of this system that provides various useful reports about library resources i.e. books, members, eBooks, transactions and etc… for the administrator librarians enabling them to have general reports and absolute supervision on the situation.
News and Events: Here the logged in user (with any privilege) can merely see the important news and events that are published by the librarians with no authentication to alter any part of them.