Developing a Library Management System : A Suggested Model in the Central Library of Cihan University-Erbil

Post date: Apr 17, 2020 3:1:11 PM

Assistant-Lectr. bushra ali zainal at the department of Business Administration gave a seminar entitled Developing a Library Management System : A Suggested Model in the Central Library of Cihan University-Erbil on 14-November-2019 at 1:30 PM in Business Administration Department. Hall No. 8204: library management system (LMS) is considered as an advanced way to collect, organize, and process the essential data from library which relates to the borrowing, returning and reservation of a book, our purpose was to develop an LMS for the central library of Cihan University- Erbil in order to solve the issues of the traditional way of managing the library that they use, because it is very slow when it comes to issuing and reissuing of books and prone to errors all of the time, and by using Visual basic.net tool the researcher builds the suggested system. the research’s problem is using the traditional way of managing the resources of the library, which results in a lot of errors, in addition to wasting the time, cost, and misplace and lose of the books of the library, the study’s questions can be clarified by the following: a) does the library have an electronic system for book issuing? B) does the library have enough infrastructure to execute the suggested model? C) does the way of working in the current system prevents book loss, misplace, ruining and ripping the pages of the book?, the objectives of the research are: developing a library management system that is considered as an electronic way of checking the books issuing, suggesting a model that solves the problems of missing, misplacing and not returning the books of the library on time, simplifying the work of librarians and borrowers by the borrowing and returning system, in addition to designing a printable library ID that can be produced as an outcome of the system.