Chapter I.

Background of the study

A technology strengthens our educational level through the advancement of the
fast and growing development of systems in the world like Library System. Our
Automatic and Computerized Library System aimed to enhance the procedures
of the library, from manually operated to a computerized system. This proposals
purpose was to ease the transactions in the library and error-free like lending of
books, storing of books, search engine for books, manage members of the library
and secure the library system.The librarian and the library users still use the
manual way of transacting of borrowing and returning of books. The librarian use
log books in listing the books. By manipulating data, a reliable information can be
formulated which has a big help in our school. Easier way of searching for
reading and reference materials can get. Claro M. Recto Information and
Communication Technology High School located at Angeles City has a library
which has educational books, and other reading materials being used to help
students in our school.

Marshall Breeding says that the library technology industry provides essential
infrastructure upon which libraries depend to support their daily operations and
deliver content and services to their communities. Tied to the economy of
libraries, the vendors that make up the library technology industry support a
stable but highly constrained economic sector, with global opportunities. Library
budgets may never recover to pre-recession levels, fueling interest in technology
to improve their efficiency and the impact of collection resources. Products able
to deliver efficiency, innovation, and excellent user experience are especially well
positioned in this phase of the history of the industry. Following a period of
intensive development, a slate of new products that aims to align with current
strategic priorities has entered a new phase of broader implementation. Index-
based discovery services, available since 2009, have become vital components
of academic library infrastructure and continue to see strong sales, including both
first-time implementations and churn from competitors.

Matt Enis views that selecting a library management system is never an easy
decision. Vendors of integrated library systems (ILS) offer solutions tailored to
public, academic, school, and special libraries, but even when organized by type,
libraries are hardly one-size-fits-all organizations. Choosing a new vendor tends
to mean a major investment, with a multiyear commitment to a solution that often
will require new training, adaptation, and trade-offs among cost, features, and
functionality.

While Ken Chad says that in this time of transition of the library automation
industry, stakes are high for the vendors that are creating innovative or even
transformative products and competing to bring these products first to the
market. Establishing momentum early is essential.

Our Target of population is the population of students 501+ at Claro M Recto

Information and Communication Technology High School. Claro M. Recto
Information and Communication Technology High School is a Junior High School
located at Dona Aurora St. Claro M. Recto Angeles City Philippines. The school
site is used to be a primary school of Claro M.Recto Elementary School;
however, the limited enrollment in its classes led to its integration with Dr.
Clemente Dayrit Elementary School in 1998. The said integration did not leave
the school site futile because since then, the existing classrooms were utilized for
Non-Formal Education Classes for out-of-school youth and adults under the
DECS Non-Formal Education System.

Subsequently, the school was used by Dr. Clemente Dayrit Elementary School
for its classes under its Pre-Elementary Department until approval of the Division
Office of Angeles City for the t5ransfer of Special Program for the Arts Classes
from Francisco G. Nepomuceno Memorial High School in June 2006. The school
was then known as Philippine School of Arts.
Due to a very limited enrollment in the Special Program for the Arts Classes,
transfer of the students under the said program to the school site did not happen.
This led to the establishment of an ICT-0centered secondary school by the
School Division Superintendent, Dr. Antonieta B.Tiotuico. The school was
named Claro M. Recto Information and Communication Technology High School.
The schools Division Superintendent assigned Mrs. Lyn V. Lansangan, ES I-
Makabayan, to assist Mrs. Lourdes G.Dela Cruz, designated Officer-in-charge of
the school, in preparing the documents needed for the creation of the school .
Mr.Honorio C. Sarmiento, ES I- Industrial Arts, also extended assistance in
preparing the necessary facilities for the initial operation of the school for the S.Y.
2008-2009. The Prinicipal of Francisco G.Nepomuceno Memorial High School
(FGNMHS0, Ms. Ma. Celine L. Vega alsso supported the establishment of the
school.
Claro M.Recto Inforamation and Communication Technology High School started
to operate in June 2008 as a free public secondary school.
 The library system is a system that made for the school officer, librarian, and for
student to take away the traditional way of recording the data of the books. The
system aim is to change the inconvenient way of recording the data of the books.
A convenient way to borrow a book to library. It makes the librarian to have an
easier task of keeping the record of the books. It records the capability of the
book to the ratio of the student that will going to use. It records the one who is
responsible for the book. It easier to define who's the one using it and who's
responsible of the loss of the book.

Statement of the Problem

1. Many students lose or misplace the books that were lent to them by the school
library.
2. The librarian cannot easily find the book which a student needs or wants to
borrow.
3. Students cant avoid to borrow books from their classmates and because of that
they may either misplace that book or forget where they lest the book.
4. The library system that the school has is manual and thus it is harder for the
librarian to keep all kinds of records.
5. It makes it harder for the librarian to look for the records of a student which will
return a book he or she has borrowed since the system that the library uses is
manual.

Objectives of the Study

1. To prevent the loss of books of each student.
2. To help the librarian have an easy task in finding what the student needs.
3. To avoid students from borrowing books from their classmates since they wont
misplace their own.
4. To have an automated library system since it will be easier to keep all records in
a computer which will be a great help to the librarian.
5. It will be a much easier task for the librarian to look for the records of the student
which will return a book/s.
Scope and Delimitation
This study centered and focused the gathered data consisted of 1000 references of
books in our library that will be validated and recognized as acceptable if the information
are matched. Every evidences found in this study can help students to easily find things
that are lost. This study is interested on how and where students and teachers learn the
information about the library of CMRICTHS. It aims to recognize people who have lost
their books based from the library system. This Study would also like to know who
borrows books from the library. And this program could help for us the students to be
aware in terms of personal things and any other things. This research study is limited
and focuses only for the students, teachers, and people in CMRICTHS.

This Study used a Purposive and Useable Sampling Technique for it targeted many
students in Cmricths and teachers handling different kinds of subjects like Math,
Filipino, English, ESP, Science, AP, TLE, Computer and other reading books. This was
made to get the discipline of the students ratings. And It is aimed to have a accurate,
consistent, and reliable source for us such teachers especially students are being
careful in their things. Thus, results of this system can make the library use properly and
to have a standardized references were rigidly analyzed by us, researchers.

Significance of the Study

For the students: To have an easy process of borrowing and/or returning
a book. To help the students to easily locate their lost book. To help the
students to find the owner of the book in case they found a book. Also for
the students to make a good relationship with books.
For the librarian: to prevent the data getting lost. To help the librarian to
easily organize the books. To have a faster transaction in borrowing
and/or returning a book. To track the quantity of the books.
For the school: to monitor the quantity of the books. To be aware of the
books that the students' needs. To quickly approach the DepEd for the
books that needs to be restocked.