Abstract:
For many years, institutions such as secondary schools and colleges have used the file based manual system to manage library use. Whereas this was quite effective for some time, due to the expansion of the library and the increase in the number of the library users such as students, the system wastes a lot of time especially when searching for a particular book or resource. In response to this problem, more librarians have been added and this has increased the costs of managing the library. This inefficiency, led to the study that was aimed at automating the booking keeping function of the library.
As study was carried out at John Paul SS and it was discovered that the manual system had inefficiencies ranging from time wastage, high cost of operation in terms of human resources, long search time and data redundancy among others. a computer based LMS was developed using notepad. This new system allows the users to add books into the system, search for books from the system database, track member information, managing borrowing among others.
By automating library operations, the school will enjoy the advantages of using databases and transaction processing systems.
