Design and development of library management system of cagayan state university

The growing number of students and Faculty members is quite a dilemma for the maintenance and security of the library holdings which triggered the University to modernize the library. Conversion from manual to automated system has been the clamor of the users for quite some time yet this yearning is yet to materialize. Library staff members and borrowers alike find difficulty in the transactions which include borrowing, surrendering, cataloguing, and inventorying, among others. This study aims to convert the manual or paper-based library system into an automated system that will efficiently manage the transaction of borrowing and returning books. Complexity of the process may remain but the time in perfecting a process is remarkably reduced. In the software that has been designed and developed, technical and functional requirements were thoroughly studied and analyzed. In the software, transactional errors and tedium have been minimized thus making the library transaction efficient and effective. The methodology used in the development was the waterfall model therefore requirements specified by the user were really met. The implementation used is the phased strategy so that the new system would not totally eradicate the old one but to gradually efface the old system.