EBONYI STATE UNIVERSITY ABAKALIKI

TITLE
INTEGRATED LIBRARY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

BY

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TO:

DR. MRS ALO

DATE: 7TH MAY, 2013

DEDICATION

This work is solely dedicated to God almighty.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I want to appreciate my friends and family members for their support all through the incubation period of this project. As you stood by me so shall God stand by you all, whenever and wherever.
Thank you all.

Table of Contents DEDICATION 2 ACKNOWLEDGMENT 3 ABSTRACT 6 CHAPTER ONE 7 INTRODUCTION 7 1.1 BACKGROUNG OF STUDY 7 1.2 PROBLEM STATEMENT 7 1.3 AIM AND OBJECTIVES 8 1.3 SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY 8 1.5 SCOPE OF STUDY 8 CHAPTER TWO 9 LITERATURE REVIEW 9 2.1 Aspects of Next-Generation ILS 10 CHAPTER THREE 13 METHODODLOGY AND SYSTEM ANALYSIS 13 3.1 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 13 3.1.1 Project Methodology 13 3.3 DATA ANALYSIS 15 3.3.1 LIMITATIONS OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM 15 3.3.2 DATA FLOW OF THE PROPOSED SYSTEM 16 3.5 SYSTEM SPECIFICATION 17 CHAPTER FOUR 18 SYSTEM DESIGN 18 4.1 INPUT AND OUTPUT FORMS 18 4.1.1 DATA TABLES 18 4.1.2 DISPLAY FORMS 19 4.2 CONCLUSION 21 REFERENCES 22

ABSTRACT

The adoption of integrated library systems (ILS) became prevalent in the 1980s and 1990s as libraries began or continued to automate their processes. These systems enabled library staff to work, in many cases, more efficiently than they had in the past. However, these systems were also restrictive—especially as the nature of the work began to change—largely in response to the growth of electronic and digital resources that they were not designed to manage.
New library systems—the second (or next) generation—are needed to effectively manage the processes of acquiring, describing, and making available all library resources. This article examines the state of library systems today and describes the features needed in a