LIBRARY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR St. JOHN'S COLLEGE JAFFNA

Abstract

ABSTRACT St. John's College Jaffna was established in 1823 by the Anglican missionaries from England. St. John's College is a leading semi government school in northern Sri Lanka. The school has a library with fifteen thousand of books approximately. The library of St. John's College Jaffna (SJC) is running on manual system over the years but four years ago they had free software for library management with limited facilities. This library Management System is mainly used by Librarian and is able to manage all daily activities and members, books details. In the real world, the time is most impotent and it’s going fast. So that, want to finish every activities in short period. The proposed automated Library Management System is provide fast to complete the activities like searching for books, registering members, maintaining the Library catalogue, Update records and edit information, delete records and generating reports. Here, it was used to develop the system through waterfall model. This includes problem definition, requirement analysis, system design, coding and Unit testing, integration and system testing, system maintenance, documentation. Requirement analysis is a stage to gather the user requirement such as functional and nonfunctional requirements, the system design was mainly used to design the user interface and database design. After complete the coding part, it was preceded to system testing to find the system bugs and fixed them. The project was implemented by Visual Studio 2008 and SQL server 2008 was used as the database. Visual Studio’s own reporting tool, c r ys t a l r e por t was used for report generation. In addition, Rational Rose and Dia free and open source general-purpose diagramming software were used to draw the UML diagrams shown in this dissertation. At the end of this project a standalone application that met the client requirements was successfully implemented and installed at the client computer.