Librarians are often unable to cope with all this work and so the library administrators have decided to replace the existing system with a computerized one.

The manual system has been in use since the library first opened. The library has several books of every type and value. Every book has a card attached to it with the book details. The details on the card show the book reference number, title, its author, year of publication and shelf number. Similarly every student who borrows books from the library has 3 user cards, each of which shows the student’s id, student’s name and surname, address, id, telephone number and card expiry date.

To borrow books the student chooses a maximum of three books and takes them to the librarian. The librarian takes the book card from each book, and stores them with the user’s cards

o Title of book and/or author of book

Ø Terminals connected to the main computer to search for book availability

Ø The computer issues a reminder for overdue books.

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