Library Management System

Software Requirements Specification

Version 1.0

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Contents
Introduction 3
Purpose

Scope

Goal

Overall Description 4
Functional Requirements 6
User Accounts and Login

Library Data Maintenance

Viewing Books

Bookings and Waitlists 7

Alerts and Notifications 7
Reviews

Non Functional Requirements

Usability

Reliability 8
Performance

Design Contents 9
Online Help and Documentation

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Introduction
Borrowing books, returning books or viewing the available books at the
library of Pune University Computer Science Department (PUCSD) is currently
done manually. The student has to go to the Library and check the available books
at the Library. Students check the list of books available and borrow the books
if the book is available. Then the librarian makes manual entry on the Library
card issued to the student and allows the member to check out the book. The
searching of booking and maintaining the records becomes difficult due to lack of a
database.
This project aims to develop an Online Library Management System for PUCSD.
This system would be used by members who may be students or professors of the
Department to check the availability of the books and borrow the books, and
by the librarian to update the databases. The purpose of this document is to
analyze and document on a high-level, the need and features of this Online Library
System. It focuses on the capabilities and facilities provided by a real
Library.

Purpose
The purpose of this Software Requirements Specification (SRS) document is to
describe the overall behavior of the Online Library System. This SRS defines
and describes the operations, performance, and quality assurance
requirements of the Online Library System that is to be developed. This
document also describes the nonfunctional requirements . It also describes the
design constraints and technologies that are to be considered when the
system is to be designed, and other factors necessary to provide a complete
description of the requirements for the system. This Software Requirements
Specification (SRS) captures the complete software requirements for the
system. Requirements described in this document will be used as guidelines to
develop the Online Library System.

Scope
The Online Library System that is to be developed provides the members
with books information, online booking of books and many other facilities. It
gives a real life Library experience on users computers. The Online Library System
is supposed to have the following features.

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The system provides users with accounts , which can be accessed using
logins.
The system allows the members to view all available books depending upon
various aspects.
The system allows the members to book the books 24 hours a day and
all the through the semester.
The system lets the library staff to check which all members have booked the
books and whether they can borrow any more books or not.
The system allows the Librarian to create the books list, add/delete books and
maintain the books list.
The system updates the book inventory as and when the member borrows or
returns a book.
The book list is automatically updated and the decision of offering the
book based on the constraints associated with user account.
The system also allows users to write reviews and give ratings so as
to share their experiences with other users.

The features that are described in this document will be used in the future
phases of the
software development cycle. The features described here meet the needs of
all the users. The
success criteria for the system is based in the level up to which the
features described in this
document are implemented in the system.

Goals
The main aim of implementing this system is to move away from manual file
based library
system to automated database based library system.
User Perspective:
The user of system will be provided a real library experience
on their computers, thus limiting the need to actually go to the library
accept to take the book. Users can share their experience about
various books by writing reviews and giving ratings to various
books. Automatic mail/notifications will keep the users abreast
with recent updates related to the system. This system will provide
improved experience to the user.
Librarian Perspective:
The Librarian of system shall be provided with interfaces to
maintain details about members and books. The book list can be
automatically updated or modified. The system will also provide real
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life data to the librarian. It will improve the efficiency of the librarian
and will make maintaining the library data easy.

Overall Description
Product Perspective
The Online Library System is a system to be used by library at PUCSD. The
Online Library System to be developed benefits greatly the members and the
Librarian of PUCSD. The system provides books list and information to members
and helps them decide on the books to borrow from the library. The Librarian
can keep the books list updated all the time so that the members (students
and the professors) get the updated information all the time. Along with this
users can write reviews and give ratings indicating the usefulness of books.
Automatic notification system will allow users to remain abreast with latest
information.

Product Functions
The Online Library System provides online real time information about the
books available in the Library and the user information. The System functions are
more or less the same as described in the product perspective. The functions of
the system include the system providing different type of services based on the
type of users [Member/Librarian].

The member should be provided with user accounts along with login
facilities. The account will contain various kind of information about user.
The member should be provided with the updated information about the
books list either through notifications or automatically generated e-mails.
Provisions for the members to borrow the books they want, if all the other
required rules hold good.
The members are provided with the books available list and allowed to
choose the books, which they want to use in the coming up days.
The members can even book 1-2 books which they have to get issued in next
2days.
The members can write review as well as give ratings to different
books based on the usefulness of the book.
The librarian can get the information about the members who have
borrowed or returned the books.
The librarian is provided with interfaces to add/delete the books
available in the book catalog.
The list gets automatically updated when members complete the book
borrowing or returning process.

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The system automatically sends notifications regarding the due date of

returning book.

User characteristics
The users of the system are members, librarian of the PUCSD and the
administrators who maintain the system. The members and the librarian are
assumed to have basic knowledge of the computers and Internet browsing. The
administrators of the system will have more knowledge of the internals of the
system and will be able to rectify the small problems that may arise due to disk
crashes, power failures and any other reasons. The proper user interface and
online help must be sufficient to educate the users on how to use the system
without any problems.

Constraints

The information of all the users must be stored in a central database

that is accessible by the Online Library System.
The Online Library System must have access to existing library
data(text file) and user account information(already stored on CS server).
The Online Library System is hosted on the Department Server and is running
all 24 hours a day.
The users can access the Online Library System from any computer that
has Internet browsing capabilities and an Internet connection.
The users must have their correct usernames and passwords to enter
into the Online Library System.
The library system must provide correct real world data and should
take care of concurrency issues.

Assumptions and dependencies

The users have sufficient knowledge of computers.

The servers on which system is to be hosted should have Internet
connection and Internet server capabilities.
The users know the English language, as the user interface will be provided in
English
The system can access and modify the Library database

Functional Requirements
This section describes in detail all the functional requirements

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1. User Account and Login

The system shall automatically create accounts when a new student /
faculty is admitted to the department. The user accounts will be made
accessible through Login capabilities. This can be integrated with login
functionality that is already implemented at PUCSD. The user must login
before he can use the library system.

2. Library data maintenance

The system will provide interfaces to access and maintain data related
to various aspects of library system like Book details ,user details and user
history. There will be a clear emarcation of interfaces provided to the
Librarian/Administrator and those provided to other users.

3. Viewing Books
The system will provide a clear and neat interfaces to access and view
books depending upon category, author, publication, edition etc.

4. Bookings and Waitlists

The system will allow the user to select and book the required book. Once he
has booked it, he can go to the library and collect the book. If the book is
already issued by some other user, the current user will be added on the
waitlist of the book. After the book has been returned, depending upon the
wailist the next user will be issued the book.

5. Alerts and Notifications

The system will alert the Librarian in case of any problems like student not
returning book within stipulated time. The system will also give alerts to
administrators in case some critical function of system is not working . Also
automatic notifications will be sent to the members regarding various
updates, due date reminders.

6. Reviews
The system will allow users to share their experience about various
books with other users by providing facilities to rate books and write
reviews. Users can read reviews before borrowing any books.

Non Functional Requirements

This section describes in detail all the non-functional requirements

1. Usability

The system shall allow the users to access the system from the
Internet using HTML or its derivative technologies like XML/CSS. The
system uses a web browser as an interface.
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Since all users are familiar with the general usage of browsers,
no special training is required.
The system is user friendly and online help makes using the system
easy.

2. Reliability
The system has to be very reliable due to the importance of data and the
damages that can be caused by incorrect or incomplete data .

a. Availability
The system is available 100% for the user and is used 24 hrs a
day and 365 days a year. The system shall be operational 24 hours
a day and 7 days a week.

b. Mean Time to Repair (MTTR)

Even if the system fails, the system will be recovered back up within
an hour or less.

c. Accuracy
The system should accurately provide real time information taking
into consideration various concurrency issues.

d. Access Reliability
The system shall provide 100% access reliability.

3. Performance
a. Response Time
The Homepage should be able to be downloaded within 30
seconds using a 56K modem. The information is refreshed at
regular intervals depending upon whether some updates have
occurred or not. The system shall respond to the member in not less
than two seconds from the time of the request submittal. The system
shall be allowed to take more time when doing large processing jobs.

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b. Administrator/Librarian Response
The system shall take as less time as possible to provide service
to the administrator or the librarian.

c. Capacity
The system should be capable of handling all the users from PUCSD .

d. Resource Utilization
The resources will be accessed and modified according the user
requirements and also according to the books requested by the users.

4. Design Constraints
a. Software Language Used
The languages that shall be used for coding the Online Library System
are Php , Drupal web framework and HTML/CSS and MYSQL database.

b. Development Tools
Will make use of the available Drupal web framework. Also will make
use of the online references available for developing programs in
Drupal and Php.

5. On-line Help and Documentation

Online help will be provided for each of the feature available with the Online
Library System. All
the functionalities will provide an on-line help system to assist the user. The
nature of these help will depend on usability aspect of the developed Library
System. Online help is provided for each and every feature provided by the
system.
Since the installation and maintenance of Online Library System is a
complex process, only administrators will do it. So an installation Guide will
not be provided to the user.

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