Android Barcode Scanner for Library

CHAPTER I

The Problem and its scope

Introduction

With the advent of the digital age, future of library will be as a knowledge center that is dynamic, where not only the librarian, the “books” (whether real or virtual), and the users engage in an interchange of ideas — but the library architecture acts as not only a surrounding framework, but also as a healthy “space” where ideas can flourish, live, grow and even be protected.

This study focused on mobile library application that applies the theory and definition to the practice of librarianship, specifically addressing how technology functionalities such as comments posting, and cataloging might intimate changes in how libraries provide access to their collections using catalogue.

Thus the researchers try to design, develop, test, and implement an Android Barcode Scanner for Library that would make the library more transparent through its functions and physical design.

Theoretical Background

In a world where mobile digital media has quickly become leader in information systems, even old-fashioned libraries full of books and periodicals are quickly making the migration from library shelves across the world to database of collected catalogues. Theories on information system and cataloguing were utilized in realizing the integration of the present manual cataloguing of the university library in to a mobile catalogue system.

Barcode Reading: an information Theory

Since the beginning of the 1970s, barcodes have been used for automatic identification and traceability of consumer goods and parcel post. Because of its simplicity, this technology quickly became inescapable in electronic data interchange. Nowadays this tendency has been strengthened with the development of tag reading and new services such as mobile ticketing.

Basically, a barcode conveys binary information to be decoded by a reading device. Barcode reading technologies are thus singular communication systems in which messages are...