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.
3. Real-time Inventory Count and Record Summary
4. Track missing and unreturned books.

VI. SCOPE AND DELIMITATION

This study is focused in the design and development of a Library Management System for the
University of the Northern Philippines that shall help in improving the processes or transactions in the
library through a more organized and faster system

The proposed Library Management System covers the major processes in the University of the
Northern Philippines Library namely searching of books, viewing of the books details, maintenance and
adding of books, library card monitoring and validation, and borrowing of the books for take home or
outside the library.

The proposed system will be limited on the fines and payments of the students due to overtime
take home/borrowing of books.

Likewise, establishing a connection for outside the school campus and network access because
the said system will be only available inside the University of the Northern Philippines Library.