The library management system is a software to manage manual functions of a library. The software helps to manage the entire library operations from maintaining book records to issue a book.
The fields that are stored in the tables will be having different data types like integer, varchar, date/time etc. The entity relationship diagram will give logical structure of the database. Model is an approach that is commonly used in the database design. So this is how we create mini project of library management system.
A library management system is an example of an information system. An information system, whether it is computerised or not, is a system that represents objects in a physical system, for example, information resources in a library collection. The catalogue discussed in the last chapter is a system that represents the actual information resources of a library, whether that representation consists of marks on a card, marks on a microfiche sheet or data stored in a computer.
According to Rodney Hebels he said that the first, the term ‘library management system’ is the one most commonly used by librarians and system vendors to describe the systems that perform acquisition, cataloguing and circulation functions. It has generally replaced earlier terms, such as ‘library housekeeping system’ which used to be in common use in the British literature and indicated that this kind of system is used to handle a library's day-to-day transactions. The change in terminology perhaps reflects the fact that these systems also perform management reporting, thus supporting higher levels of library management than the transactional subsystems.