Chapter One

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background

Today most of the library is using either manual system for tracking the day to day
activity or they are using desktop, spread sheet like MS Excel application to manage
the day to day activity. In this proposed JAVA Library Management System it will run
in client server mode and user can check the book availability, they can search the
books, library staff can issue, receive book, and management can check the report.
System will store historical data. Management can anytime view the total book status.
The Library Management System is used to overcome the entire problem which they
are facing currently, and
making complete atomization of manual or semi automatic process of library
management system.

1.2 Problem Statement

TO DEVELOP A LIBRARY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Library Management System can be used by education institutes to

maintain the records of books easily. Achieving this objective is difficult
using manual system as the information is scattered, can be redundant and
collecting relevant information may be very time consuming. All these
problems are solved using this project.
As thee are many books present in library and also there are various books
issued by librarians to the members, it is very difficult to maintain huge
catalogue within reasonable space constraints manually and to maintain the
same is very time and space consuming process. If we want complete
information of available books or issued book at any time it is difficult to
get it. Although manual system can handle but there are some flaws in this
system.

◦ Data Redundancy
 ◦ Lot of Paperwork involved
◦ Time consuming process
◦ Risk of Data Loss

1.3 Aim and Objectives

AIM
This project of “LIBRARY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM” is developed in JAVA and
MYSQL. Developed in popular JAVA development tool NetBean IDE. it gives us the
complete information about the library. We can enter the record of new books and
retrieve the details of books available in the library. We can issue the books to the
members and maintain their records and can also check how many books are issued
and stock available in the library. In this project we can maintain the late fine of
students who returns the issued books after the due date.

Objectives
 The System is a stand-alone System

 The Admin Can Issue and renew the book.

 The system can maintain data about the books.

 The system can generate report

1.4 Scope and Limitation

Without a library management system managing and maintaining the details of
the books is a tedious job for any University. Library management system will
store all the book and category, availability and also maintains the details about
the student to whom the books are issued.
 Login Module: Login module will help in authentication of user
accounts. Users who have valid login ID and password can only into their
respective accounts.
 Forget Password: when user password his/her password he/she can
retrieve the password in FORGET PASSWORD.
 Addition Of Book: This module helps to add the books details according
to category wise.
 Deletion Of books: This module provides the Admin option to delete the
already existing books from the given category and the admin can delete the
already existing books from the database.
 Addition of student details: this module helps to add and maintain the
details about the student to whom the books have been issued, the details of the
students are categories according to their courses.
 Fine Module: If the student doesn't returns the book on the given due
date then this module helps to imply fine on that particular student

 Admin id
 Admin Password
 Book Details
 Book Issued Date
 Book Return Date
 Student id