Portfolio Project - Library Management System (LMS)

Project Background

The Library Management System (LMS) is a web-based automation system.

It is designed for accessing, sharing and managing information assets across multiple offices or country boundaries. The multi-lingual design and features allow local catalogues to reflect local needs whilst conforming to the needs of a corporate standard.

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Solutions highlights

The system allows the staff to:

• Perform an advanced search in the library catalogue
• Manage the library catalogue content and physical copies
• Access and manage the thesaurus
• Store information about the borrowers, track the borrower's activity in the past and make records about the current activity
• Administrate a user access

Technical characteristics of the LMS:

• Customizable to meet specific client's needs.
• The usage of Microsoft .NET and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database technologies.
• The catalogue information is exported to the files of PDF, DOC, XLS, XML or CSV formats
• Support of the Open Public Access Catalogue (OPAC), which is a public sub-system of the SoutronGLOBAL LMS. It is accessible round-the-clock from any client desktop via Internet or the client Intranet.
• Multi-lingual and poly-hierarchical thesaurus management tool. Control over words and phrases.

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Competitive advantages

• System customization in terms of catalogue fields and templates management (creating, editing, deleting)
• New advanced search logic
• New AJAX powered user interface
• New integrated multi-lingual poly-hierarchical thesaurus
• New export formats (PDF, XML, CSV)
• Improved navigation in many system areas, including loans and borrowers facilities
• Improved User Defined Fields selection
• Better local views
• More informative system messages (notifications and warnings)

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