Library System

Chapter 1 1

THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND

Introduction

In today’s modern age where computer has become a way of life, it helps a lot in such a way that it makes work more progressive and productive. Particularly for some libraries, daily transactions are done on paper. Having a computer program may help in many ways such as organizing, storing and manipulating of data.

A library is a collection of books, resources, and services, and the structure in which it is housed; it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual. The term "library" has itself acquired a secondary meaning: "a collection of useful material for common use," and in this sense is used in fields such as computer science, mathematics, statistics, electronics, and biology.

Statistics helps in presenting complex data in a suitable tabular, diagrammatic and graphic form for an easy and clear comprehension of data, it also helps in collecting an appropriate quantitative data.

This research is intended for public, institutions and researchers’, use as their resourceful information. In particular, this study will help the library personnel or the librarian in monitoring the books accurately. Further, the use of cataloguing will be made easier through an advance system provided by this study.

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The librarian is encountering problems in doing transactions like borrowing books, checking the availability of books, returning and accessioning of books because all the transactions are being done manually.

The Researchers propose Library User’s Statistics System of Tomas Claudio Memorial College to enhance the daily transaction in the library. This proposed system will provide a computerized Library User’s to make it more organized and easy to access.

Objectives of the Study

This study is design to develop a computerized library user’s statistics to eliminate the manual process of gathering data from students, faculty, and...