ONLINE LIBRARY SYSTEM FOR SLSI

Abstract

The usage of Internet applications has dramatically become popular during the past decade or so. Today Internet is considered to be an integral component in many a field and business. It brings the users spades of benefits in the form of saving time, energy, money etc.

Sri Lanka Standards Institution (SLSI) that offers a number of services with the objective of promoting standard and quality practices in the country cannot stay aloof from this world trend. Embracing the advantages of the Internet will no doubt enhance the efficacy and efficiency of the SLSI that would bring more customer satisfaction.

Via this project the library services of the SLSI will be made available through the Internet and this can be considered a forerunner for making other services online in the future. The Library that servers a large cross section of customers has a repository of local, foreign and International Standards. Besides this it provides wide range of books for reference and for borrowing

The scope of the project is to provide basic facilities over the Internet. This is namely searching, reservation, cancellation of reservation, provisional registration, borrowing details etc. Further the web site carries other information and updates. Besides this, specific rights are given for the administrator to control and mange the operations. In the mean time to be realistic with the time frame allocated to this project, it does not address the complex and security sensitive aspects such as online payment, online purchase and online reference. However, it leaves provisions to incorporate such features in future. The system is tested at various stages of the development and evaluated by the probable users. The results reflect well on the outcome.

This project makes use of the dot net framework namely ASP.NET with Visual Basic in view that this technology is among the fast catching up technologies. The database is designed in SQL server since .net framework provides special provisions for SQL server. The analysis and designing is done with Rational Rose tool