Database Design and Application Development using Visual Basic and MS Access for Administration of a Library

Abstract

A library needs to handle a lot of information which is related to books, authors, members etc. It is a tough task to handle all these things manually but can be done easily with the help of modern Information Technology. As of late computers are being used in many libraries in Bangladesh to handle these things. So some dedicated software which can maintain a large scale database are required for this purpose. This project is an application software that can be used to maintain and operate any medium and large scale database of a library very efficiently and effectively. This software helps an administrator to handle everything of a library very sophisticatedly. The tools which are created here are very highly helpful for the documentation of the resources of a library. The users can easily use these tools to keep any type of information related to library management. This project also has a very useful, powerful and dedicated report generating tool which provides reports on books, members etc. With the help of these tools we can know daily, monthly or even yearly transaction of the books, the books a member borrows, details book information, details member information, the name of the authors of any book, fines for returning books lately etc.