REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES

This chapter deals with the review of Literatures and Studies. It also presents the
synthesis of the review and its relevance to the present study. Related Literature AMA
student Kariz Reinalyn B. Galano (et. al. Don Ricardo C. Lazaro, Rozmaigne Ann L.
Sebastian, Kevin Patrick E. Viesca) (2012) cited in their approved thesis proposal at
present ACLC has three hundred sixty-five students enrolled. The institution is currently
using a manual system in their Library and has weak security. Students can borrow
books but need to return it within 5 school days.

There is no proper monitoring on books being returned. There are no penalties imposed
to the students as well. The only way the librarian will find out if there are still pending
books not returned is during the end of semester at the inventory period. The librarian
then will not sign the clearance of the students who failed to return the books. Another
problem is the list of inventories of books.
The students need to go and ask for the librarian’s assistance in order for them to
search for the books.
Karen Foss (2010), Library Director of the Catawba County Library System in Newton,
North Carolina has expressed that it is difficult to find materials to help new public
library managers cultivate their professional development. Most of the research and
writings on library management have focused on academic libraries and only recently
has there been more interest in the administration of public libraries. The skill and style
of public library managers – the directors, branch managers, and department and
service managers who are leading these institutions – strongly affects the culture of a
public library.
Library staff looks to these managers to help them navigate through the rapid changes
that are occurring in public libraries as these changes in technology, roles, and user
expectations strongly alter their daily routines of public service. Contemporary library
managers need a wider array of skills and attributes than their earlier and more
traditional counterparts and will need to seek continual professional development to
remain effective as public libraries transition into the twenty-first century.
These managers will also need to distinguish between management and leadership
skills and learn to identify and mentor leaders within their staff who can assist in the
transition. According to Alvin javelosa (2011) 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. 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. 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 process is time consuming. This proposed system will provide their library a
computerized system making it more organized and easier to access. The advantage of
this study is to make their current system more effective and efficient. This
computerized library system is a transaction processing system (TPS) that will provide a
convenient cataloguing, inventory, monitoring, accessioning, borrowing, returning,
security and retrieving of records.
According to Mohd Fairuz Anwar Bin Mahadi (2005), The Library management system
will store all the books and members information that consist book number, book title,
author name and racks to the system database. The system also provides search
function to help students find the book by number of books. Search functions will
search through the books database to look for the book and view where the book is
situated. For the administrator user, only librarians have access to view or edit data
from the system databases.
Administrator user will handle administrative functions such create new LMS user
account and decide the number of days allowed for the borrowed books. User needs to
enter correct password and user id before user can access this function. From here,
user can add, delete or update the book and borrower database.
According to Donna M. Salinas (2010) Library is the best place in the school where the
students review and study.
It is the place where students study, so our group aims to improve the manual
operation of the library system. We thought of something that makes the time of
students and library personnel decreases for searching and borrowing of books. Related
Studies: According to Shelagh (2001) Fisher library management system is becoming
marginalized in the context of ICT developments currently taking place within the
library sector because suppliers have failed to keep up with such developments or have
been more concerned with keeping up with the changes in the core functions.
The aim of this research, therefore, was to determine the feasibility of developing and
disseminating a model system specification which could be used to assist and guide
libraries in the procurement of library management systems.
The premise was that if a core set of requirements for library management systems, as
articulated by purchasing libraries, could be identified, it followed that it would be
feasible to develop a model specification or ‘toolkit’ on which procuring libraries could
draw. Identification of a potential core set of requirements could be identified primarily
by undertaking analyses of  specifications produced by libraries for the tendering
process in acquiring a library management system.
Thus, forty-one specifications were collected from libraries which had recently acquired
a library management system, and these were subjected to various levels of analysis.
The results are reported in Section 4. Secondly, it was decided that as library system
suppliers were in receipt of large numbers of specifications produced by procuring
library authorities, they were in a strong position to comment on the feasibility, and
desirability, of developing a model specification.
Thus, a survey of UK system suppliers was undertaken to determine the collective view
of suppliers on the role, content, quality and usefulness of the specification as a
procurement tool. The results of the survey are reported in Section 5. A detailed
account of the methods used in this Study is provided in Section 3. The next section
(Section 2) provides a review of the literature on the role and content of specifications
and identifies weaknesses in approaches to producing specifications for the purchase of
library systems. (et. al. Rachel Delbridge, Sian Lambert) According to Veronica
Adamson (2008) Changes in society and technology are impacting significantly on UK
HE libraries and consequently on their management systems. Demographic changes,
political and economic drivers are affecting university services and funding structures,
and a ‘new realism’ of pragmatic economic and business considerations presides.
(JISC & SCONUL LMS Study Report, March 2008) Library management systems
have developed in response to technical advances and user requirements, mainly in
developing electronic interfaces, refining standards and access protocols, purchasing
and acquisition processes and cataloguing systems.
Increasing globalization of goods, services and communities means that technical
platforms are now developed on an international basis and implemented for a
worldwide network of users and contributors. A new market for library services and
information provision has emerged, with Google and Amazon as a de facto paradigm
and metaphor for discovery and delivery. Perceptions of the role and function of the
university library are changing, developing and often conflicting, particularly in relation
to the provision for collection and circulation, resource discovery, ownership and
control, personalization & nbsp; and seamless access to resources.
Enhancing usability and accessibility for an increasingly diverse user community is of
increasing importance for libraries. Today’s library users expect speed and immediacy of
information discovery, one-stop access to aggregated services, user-generated open
content, and personalized, workflow-related delivery to the desktop. (et. al. Paul
Bacsich, Ken Chad, David Kay, Jane Plenderleith).
According to Herrera C Rocio (1987) the work habits of users in any activity requiring
information, the importance they attach to obtaining it and the facilities at their
disposal, their knowledge of these facilities, their assessment of their value and the
possibility of their obtaining what they are looking for are the factors that affect user
behaviour in the quest for information. The behaviour of the users of university libraries
specifically is affected, in addition to the above factors, by others directly related to the
university environment, such as teaching methods and the type of education provided.
The country’s education system is a teaching-learning process largly consisting in an
essentially repetitive pattern in which the student consumes and reproduces the
concepts transmitted by the teacher. This model is mainly based on the university
lecture system, in which the teacher simply gives a course of study and provides the
pupil with a brief bibliography consisting basically of texts. The result has been that
education has not become a critical and creative process and library resources have
accordingly been under-utilized.
As regards the response to the information services provided by university libraries, it
can be said that research workers do not use the services properly since the role of the
library as an agent for the transfer of information has been disregarded in the research
process, this type of user tending to acquire information through informal channels of
communication, such as personal contacts with other colleagues.
In its turn, the library has neglected its task as a constituent part of the research
enterprise, forgetting that one of the priorities of the university, in addition to its
teaching role, is that of research, which is the source of much knowledge of benefit not
only to the university but also to the community in general. The university library should
pay special attention to ascertaining not only the specific information needs of each
type of user but also user behaviour patterns in the information retrieval process, in
order that these needs may be met and the factors responsible for the non-use of the
library restricted to a minimum.
This will be achieved through an appropriate methodology for conducting user studies,
which will then provide guidelines for the organization of user training or instruction
courses aimed at the various groups. These courses will influence the future response
of users to information services. Since user behaviour in the information retrieval
process determines the level of library-user interaction, continual monitoring by the
librarian of changes in that behaviour is necessary.
These changes are dependent not only on information needs but also on the possible
impact of the introduction of new services. This shows that, over and above the matter
of training in the use of library resources, user behaviour presents a number of special
features, largely reflecting the fact that the information needs of those concerned are
not well defined and that their request for information are consequently vague and very
general.
It follows that library staff should bear in mind their active role in promoting and
publicizing their services and resources since, despite the continual emphasis placed on
the role of information in development, it has been shown that users tend to dispense
with non-essential information, the usual practice being to rely on memory, to evade
the problem or to solve it with vague or incomplete information.
However, it should not be overlooked that there is another group of users who consult
libraries actively and effectively in order to satisfy their information needs; although
accessibility influences the use that they make of resources, the most important thing
for this group is their confidence and faith in the information system. (c Loreto M. Libia
and Rua R. Ivan). According Neelakdan,B (2010) a sincere attempt has been made
towards finding out ways and means for automating activities in the School of
Chemistry Library.
The objective of this study is to use the Koha Open Source software system for the
automation of the major day & shy; to & shy; day activities of the various section of the
School of Chemistry Library, which is tiresome and cumbersome. After the investigation,
the researcher has found that Koha Software is more suitable for the library
Automation. This project had the basic objective of designing a bibliographic database
for the School of Chemistry library, with which the automation of circulation routines is
carried out.
From this point of view, it may be concluded that Koha is a useful package for the
creation of a database and for information retrieval. This set of Manuals for the
automation of circulation section is tested with the database created from the collection
of chemistry department library. A sample database for a few thousand works and a
database of the users/borrowers are created. With that test sample the Manuals for
each function of the circulation section is tested with the available computer system.
Koha is an integrated software system with all the required models for small to very
large libraries. It is found that this automation projects will serve as a model for any
library. According to Dio P. Doble (2011) A college strengthens its educational level
through the advancement of its library. The Botolan Community College Computerized
Library System aimed to enhance the procedures of the library, from manually operated
to a computerized system.
This proposal’s purpose was to ease the transactions in the library, i,e. , leading 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. They use library cards and card catalogues in searching for reading and
reference materials.

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