Title Defense

I. TOPIC

Library Management System

II. PROPOSED TITLE

University of Northern Philippines Library Management System

III. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

The University of the Philippines is located at Tamag, Vigan City and has its own library. The librarian of the University like the other librarians in the country faces several problems in their service because of the manual system they use in daily transactions. They locate the availability of books through a library classification wherein there is a system of documents, library materials or any information according to their subject and allocating a call number to that information resource.

IV. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The University of Northern Philippines Library faces the following problems:

1. Students cannot easily locate book titles and authors needed for reference..

2. After tracking if a specific book is listed in the library, students cannot easily track if specific book needed is available for use.

3. The librarian needs enough time to track down the full list of borrowed book.

4. The librarian cannot easily track overdue books and unreturned books.

5. The librarian cannot easily give updated and real time inventory count.

6. The librarian cannot easily locate who borrowed specific book, he/she needs to locate it in his/her borrowers logbook.

V. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

GENERAL OBJECTIVE

To propose a Library Management System for the University of the Northern Philippines in order to increase the efficiency and manageability of the processes in searching, borrowing, returning and managing of books and also to safeguard the number and inventory of books under the care of the University librarians.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE

The System must identify the processes involved in Library System specifically to:

1. Search specific book titles and authors.

2. Search the availability of books students want to borrow....