Design and Implementation of Online E-Library System

Design and Implementation of Online E-Library System.

ABSTRACT

The advancement of technology and the rapid implementation of advanced technology have made many physical walls and boundaries of insignificant effect.

Online E-Library (Electronic Library) is a wall breaking and boundaries cutting technology that allows users to have access to information resources electronically and conduct research anywhere they are and want without actually stepping into a library using the internet service.

This applies rapidly advancing data processing technology as well as networking technology with an expectation to be highly convenient.  ONLINE E-LIBRARY SYSTEM is web-based; MS Visual Studio 2008 and MS SQL Management Studio 2005 were used for its front end and back end design respectively.

This system (the proposed model) automates the primarily aspect of manual library advantageously by the implementation of a search module amongst others. The Structured System Analysis and Design Methodology (SSADM) is use for the implementation of this project.

INTRODUCTION

A literal definition of a system is an assembly of hardware and software components together. Though, system is defined in many ways by diver authorities.

A set of components that interact together to achieve a common goal cum end is called a system by Stella C. Chiemeke. Also, a system is a group of interrelated, intersecting and interconnecting elements forming a unified whole.

The existence of computer in this age cannot be argued to be of great importance to humanity, though the computer illiterates are pushed to the wall cum left in the dark. Hence, critics of information technology express their fear on the displacement of the ICT (Information Communication Technology) illiterate resulting to unemployment.

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