ABSTRACT
Web-Base Technologies
have given many advantages to the organizations that have employed their use in
their activities. The advantages include reduction in cost, reduce
inconveniences, increase speed, increase accuracy, to mention a few. In this
project; we discuss the digitization and delivering of the library books via
the World Wide Web, on the internet, using free and open source web technology
such as Apache, My-SQL and PHP to build an effective and secure distribution
system for library materials.
We also see how the
digitization of the library materials gives the students of Computer Science
Department of Lagos State University easier access to their study
materials.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1.
BACKGROUND
OF STUDY
1.2.
MOTIVATIONS
AND PROBLEMS DEFINITION
1.3.
OBJECTIVES
OF PROJECT STUDY
1.4.
SCOPE
/ LIMITATION OF STUDY
1.5.
SIGNIFICATION
OF STUDY
1.6.
PROJECT
/ RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 WEB BASED COMPUTER APPLICATIOS – AN
OVERWIEW
2.1.1 HOW WEB APPLICATION WORKS
2.2 LIBRARY
2.3 DIGITAL LIBRARY
2.3.1. ADVANTAGES OF DIGITAL LIBRARIES
2.3.2. DISADVANTAGES OF DIGITAL LIBRARIES
2.3.3. TYPES OF DIGITAL LIBRARIES
2.3.4. EXAMPLES OF DIGITAL LIBRARIES
2.4. THE WORLD WIDE WEB
2.5. THE WORLD WIDE WEB AND DIGITAL LIBRARIES
CHAPTER THREE
SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
3.0 INTRODUCTION
3.1 GRAPHICS USERS INTERFACE
3.1.1. STUDENT U REQIREMENTS
3.1.2. ADMINISTRATOR REQUIREMENT
3.2 FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT
3.3 SYSTEM REQUIREMENT FOR PROGRAMME
3.4 POSSIBLE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
3.4.1. PHP (HYPERTEXT PRE-PROCESSOR)
3.4.1.1.ADVANTAGES
OF PHP
3.4.1.2.DISADVANTAGES
OF PHP
3.4.2. ASP (ACTIVE SERVER PAGES)
3.4.2.1 ADVANTAGES
OF ASP
3.4.2.1
DISADVANTAGES OF ASP
3.4.3 PYTHON
3.4.3.1 ADVANTAGES
OF PYTHON
3.4.3.2
DISADVANTAGES OF PYTHON
3.4.4 PEARL
3.4.4.1 ADVANTAGES OF PEARL
3.4.4.2
DISADVANTGES OF PEARL
3.4.5 AJAX (ASYNCHRONOUS JAVA SCRIPT AND XML)
3.4.5.1 ADVANTAGES
OF AJAX
3.4.5.2
DISADVANTAGES OF AJAX
3.5 LANGUAGES TO IMPLEMENT SOFTWARE
CHAPTER FOUR
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION
4.1 SYSTEM DESIGN
4.1.1. INTERFACE
4.1.2. DATABASE DESIGN
4.2. CASE DIAGRAM
4.3. IMPLEMENTATION
4.3.1 SOFTWARE SETUP
4.3.2 OPERATION PROGRAMMES
4.4 CODE FOR DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION
CHAPTER FIVE
5.1 SUMMARY
5.2 CONCLUSION
5.3 RECOMMENDATIO N
REFERENCES
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B
APPENDIX C
APPENDIX D
CHAPTER
ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1
BACKGROUND
OF STUDY
In recent times, digital technologies enable us to
digitalize and visualize informal materials on the internet. Computers can make
large amount of information available to the world wide community with the aid
of the internet.
Like in other aspects of modern society, libraries are
currently utilizing the internet’s powerful communication framework to deploy
its materials to the general public. The use of computers as machines has
greatly aided businesses, institutions, government and individuals to carry out
their activities easily. In this study, the internet will play a major role in
Education and Research studies. Already in use in major educational
institutions worldwide are libraries that are digital and mostly web-based.
A web-based digital library is a typical example of a
web application. Web application has gradually started to replace standalone
application for the sake of the advantages they provide. There have always
being digital libraries long before the existence of the internet in the
western world. Due to the numerous advantages measured up to web-based digital
libraries they are commonly used mitigate technological drives among students
today.
This project focus on the accessibility and
availability of study materials for the Lagos State University computer science
department at all time. This can also serve as an e-center for the entire
student in the department of computer science. This study will work on a
prototype of a web-based digital library and will provide a simple
administrative section for the librarian to upload books using upload form, adding
and removing books to and from the library portal as they are being digitalized.
Numerous foreign based international Universities already have web-based
digital libraries built into their website for use by students and lecturers of
the institution. Student of Lagos State University are in constant /regular
demand for reference and study materials especially because of the quest of
knowledge their course of study places on them. With a web-based digital
library, students of Lagos State University especially the computer science
department can carry out some of their studies and researching without physical
presences at the library, books can be studied via internet connected
computers. The benefits the students of Lagos State University stands to gain
are too numerous to mention.
1.2 MOTIVATIONS AND PROBLEM DEFINATION
Department of computer science of the Lagos State
University does not have a digital
library or a web-based digital library, in a bid to working towards
development, there is need for work to begin on building a web-based digital library
to international standards for the numerous advantages the institution and its
students stand to gain.
The department of computer science library is well
equipped with books but some problems exists which can be solved completely by
a web-based digital library.Books may suffer damages and loss of important
information due to mishandling by students.Natural disaster can happen to the
building and damage books e.g. Fire. Books borrowed from the library are
unavailable to her students till they are returned and replaced in their
appropriate shelf by the Liberian. This process can take months thereby denying
other students of the borrowed book when they are in need of it.Students are
prone to do nasty things like hiding books in their inappropriate shelves for
their easy and later reference just to ensure that the book is available
anytime they need to make reference to it.During non-working hours like
weekends and late nights, students cannot gain access to any of the books in
the library until the library re-opens.
1.3 OBJECTIVE OF PROJECT STUDY
The objective of this
study is to develop a Web base digital library that will create a system where
study materials and books are available in softcopy format for easy
accessibility to the students. Students can carry out some of their studies and
research without physically present at the library.
1.4 SCOPE OF STUDY/ LIMITATION OF STUDY
The limitation of this study could be time constrain
and unavailability of materials. As a result, might not contain large amount of
e-books and study materials.
1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY
A library’s usefulness is associated to its ability to
make information available to people who need it in an easy and quick manner,
since the use of computers and internet can greatly achieve this primary task,
then this project is specifically significant in aiding the operations and
purpose of Lagos State University computer science department library. It
economically reduces the cost of purchase and production of books in hard-copy.
Technologically the students are exposed
to different platform on the e-library which further enhances their drive for
academic excellence.
1.6 PROJECT/RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
It involves the design of
a web based digital library with a content management system with the aid of
Microsoft SQL and PHP which is embedded in WAMP server.
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