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Android

based

Mobile

Library

System

MilindDeshkar ,SayleeBetawar , ShubhamAmale ,NikitaHarode, RakshatJaiswal AssistantProfessor,ITDepartment,YCCE,Nagpur,

Student,ITDepartment,YCCE,Nagpur 1,2,3,4

pmilind_deshkar@yahoo.com, shubham.amale@gmail.com, nikita.harode006@gmail.com, rakshatjaiswal242@gmail.com,

Abstract—Thepapertitle“AndroidbasedMobileLibrarySystem”islibrary management android applicationfor monitoringand

controlling the transactions in Information Technology departmentlibrary.Generally,librarystaffhandleatedioustaskinvolvesorting, lending,returning,tagging,eyeingofbooks.Inaddition,libraryusersencounterproblemsforfinding,borrowing,localising,renewingthe borrowing,queuing,andsoforth.Toovercometheseobstacles,thispaperproposesasmartlibrarymanagementsystembasedonAndroid technology. Thewebserverthat will beused isan extremely lowpower draw, small form factor, no noise, solid state storage, small and lightweight server usingraspberrypi.Itwillbeusedtostorethedatarelatedtofacultyandbooks,whichwillreducetheoverallpower consumptionandcostoftheserversignificantly.Thereisauniqu facilityisaddedto reservebooksonline inurgencyand collecting later.Mobilelibraryservicesareanintegrationoftraditionallibraryserviceandmobilecommunication technology,fromwhichreaders can enjoylibraryservices anywhere andanytime. Through MobileLibrary App System, the teaching and non-teaching staff of ou departmentwouldbeableto easilycheckthebookstatus,fastenth searching process to find their desired books or to use relevant services. Also,anotification system thatpush messagesto mobileusersaboutcurrentupdatesby“GoogleCloudMessaging”service.

Keywords-Android,Information andCommunication Technology,raspberrypi,GoogleCloudMessaging.

I. INTRODUCTION

Traditionally, library systems are implemented manually

whichisverycostly,timeconsumingandtedious. Academic

librariesinengineeringinstitutionsareprominentinformation

organisationsandplayacrucialroleinfulfillingtheneedsof

the pedagogy. A college strengthens its educational level

throughtheadvancementofitslibrary.Teachers,laboratories

andlibrariesareimportantcomponentsinimpartingeffective

engineering education to them. The aim of an engineering collegelibraryisto facilitatetheengineeringprofessionalsin

enhancing and updating their knowledge and skills, and to

provide them information regarding newinnovations, views,

theories,engineeringeducation,andresearch.Thiswillinturn

enhancethe qualityofteachingand upgradationofstudent’s

results. Theprimary roleofengineeringcollege library isto

collectandorganizerecorded information inengineering and

allied subjects to meet the needs of users. Information and

CommunicationTechnologiesareincreasinglyusedtocollect,

store,retrieveand promulgate agreatamountofinformation

tohelpengineeringprofessionals.InformationTechnologyhas

a profound impact on library operations, Information

resources,services,staffskillsdevelopmentrequirementsand

users’ expectations. Information technology has virtually

unlimited potentials for variety of useful applications in

librariesasitsignificantlycontributestotheimprovedquality,

increased productivity, more efficient operations, better

resource sharingandmoreeffectiveservicestotheusers.The

purpose is to ease the transactions in the library, i.e., lending

of books, storing of books, search engine for books, manage

membersof thelibraryand securethe librarysystem.Today

thesuccessofmodernlibraryisincreasinglydependentonthe

most effective utilization and strategic management of new

technologiesinlibraries.

It is analysed the awareness of the faculty and students in

engineering colleges regarding the

availability of IT

componentsand theirlevelofsatisfactiononthebasisofour

survey.

Questionnaire-I(For Faculty):

1: GeneralInformationabouttheusers.

2: Opinionoftheusersonlibraryservices.

3: Opinion of the users on E-Journals and Audio-visual

materials.

4: Opinion of the users on Information Technology based

services.

Majorityof the faculty conceive that IT based services are

better than manualservices as they are havingaccuracy and

consistency. It is very crucial to create library awareness

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aboutthebenefitsofthelibraryservicesthatcanbeextracted

online which was not there in the manual process. Greater

approvalwasexperiencedby the usersbecause Information

technologytoolsare convenient ,takes less time to search ,

userswillgetlatestinformationonthesubjectand moreover

theyareaccurate.RegardingE-Journals majorityoftheusers

opinedthat they are very much benefited becauseit is easy

and convenient to search desired information on E-Journals

andalsoitprovideslinkstootherrelatedarticlesonthesame

subject.The Librarymakes an importantcontribution to the

faculty’s work, with a sizable percentage reporting that it

makes a significant or major contribution to being a more

productive researcher, keeping current in their field, finding

information in newor related fields , and enrichingstudent

learning.RecentDevelopments.

• ShrinkingBudgetandIncreasingpricesofbooksand periodicals.

• ChangesinCourseDesign.

• ChangesinTeachingandLearningMethods. • DecreaseinPersonalBookPurchasing. • Obsolescenceofinformation.

II. SURVEY

WetookasurveyofourfacultyofIT DepartmentofYCCE

college. The aim of the study was to investigate the

effectiveness ofthe computerized library systemin order to

support the continuous learning in various pedagogical

settings. Primary goal is to compare the traditional and the

computerizedwaysuchthat theprosandconsare identified.

Thesurveyaskedthefaculty

• HowfrequentlytheyvisittheLibraries.

• The importance of various types of resources and findingaidsfortheirteachingandresearch.

Theimportanceofspecificinformationliteracyskills to studentsuccessin theirprograms andabout their

assessmentofstudentperformanceintheseareas.

The importance of a variety of library services to theirteachingandresearchandtheirsatisfactionwith

thesesameservices.

Howuseful fourproposedserviceswouldbetotheir

work.

The contributions the Libraries make to various aspects of their work and their overall satisfaction

withservices,collections,andfacilities.

Faculty were questioned about the importance of five skills

related to finding, evaluating, and using information to

undergraduate success. They also were asked about student

performance in these same five skills. Large gaps exist

betweenratedimportanceandratedstudentperformance.

Faculty werequestioned abouttheimportanceofthese same

fiveskillstograduatestudentsuccess.Facultyalsowereasked

about graduate student performance in these five skills.

Faculty regard these skills as more important for graduate

studentsthan forundergraduates,andassessgraduatestudent

performance in these skills more highly than that of

undergraduates.

Themajorityofthefacultyrespondedtothesurveyreportthat

theyconsiderthedigitalLibrariestomakesignificantormajor

contributions to theirworkin termsoftheirabilities to keep

current intheir fields,to find informationin relatedfieldsor

newareas,to bea moreproductive researcher,to bea more

effective instructor, and to make more efficient use of their

time.

ThemajorityoftherespondentsindicatethattheDepartmental

LibraryApp willmake asignificantormajor contributionto

enrichingstudentlearningexperiences.

TheresultsofthissurveyindicateareasinwhichtheLibraries

can improve their support of faculty teaching and research.

Theseareasincludestrengtheningonlinecollections,working

with students to develop their information literacy skills,

enhancing digital access to books, providing online tutorials

for research tools, assisting with the integration of library materialsandservicesintocoursemanagementsites,assisting

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Engineering Library engineers require not only adequate

technologicalabilityandproblemsolvingskills,butalsoskills

like cooperation, communication, and presentation skills,

businessethicsandinterpersonalrelationship.

III. RASPBERRYPI

The Raspberry Pi is a series ofcredit card– sizedsingle-board

computersdeveloped in England, United Kingdo m b y

theRaspberry Pi Foundation with the intent to promote the

teaching of basiccomputer sciencein schools and developing

countries. An extremely low power draw, small form factor,

no noise, solid state storage, and other features make it an

attractive solutionfor asmalland lightweightserver. ThePi

drawsabout five to seven wattsofelectricity. This isabout

onetenthof whatacomparablefull-sizeboxcanuse.ThePi

usesanSDcardforstorage,whichisfastandhasno moving

parts.There arenumerousdevicesavailable forthePi,all at

veryaffordableprices.EverythingfromanI/Oboard(GPIO)

toacameraandthusgreatexpansioncapabilities.Havingthe

storageonanSDcard makesit easyto swap withother SD

cards running other GNU/Linuxdistributions to quicklyand

easilychangethefunctionalityofthePi.

IV. ALERTMETHODOLOGY

Google Cloud Messaging (commonly referred to as GCM) is a

mobile service developed byGooglethat enables developers

to send notification data or information from developer-run

servers to applications that target theGoogle

AndroidOperating System, as well as applications or

extensions developed for theGoogle Chromeinternet browser.

It is available to developers free of charge. The GCM Service

was first announced in August 2013 as a successor to Google's

now-defunctAndroid Cloud to Device Messaging (C2DM)

service, citing improvements to authentication and delivery,

new API endpoints and messaging parameters, and the

removal of limitations on API send-rates and message sizes.

V. IDENTIFICATIONOFREQUIREMENTS

a.Functionalrequirements:

i. Librarian- Librarian can login and access the

requiredinformation.

ii.Security- Nonormal usershould beableto login

exceptthelibrarian.

iii. Update member information- Updates of no. of

booksissued,anychangeinpersonaldetails

iv.Updatebookdetails-Librariancanaddnewbook

details, change the status of book( whether available or not

available).

v. Book issue/return- This module enables to keep

trackofissuedbooksandreturnedbooksdetailswithdateand

time.

b.Non-functionalrequirements:

i.SecurityRequirements-Normaluserscanjustread

info,cannotmodifyanythingexcepttheirdetails.Systemwill

have different types of users and every user has access

constraints.

ii.Performance-Shouldbefastandaccurate.System

shall handle expected and unexpected errors in ways that

preventinfo lossand longdowntime period. System should

beabletohandlelargeamountofdata.

iii.

User-friendly-

the

system

shall

be

very

interactive.

iv. Maintainability- Backups for database must be

available.

VI. USECASE

There are two actors, namely, user and admin. User can be

teachingandnon-teachingstaffofthedepartment.

Usercan search,reservebook,checktheavailabilitylistand

searchforebooks,whereasAdmincanuploadebooks,slides,

video lectures on different topics and subjects of the

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• Increasingcollaborationwithfacultytoofferstudentsmore

informationliteracyinstruction.

• Enhancing digitalaccesstobooks.

• Providingonlinetutorialsforresearchtools.

• Improving integration of library resources withcourse

managementsoftware

IX.SCREENSHOTSOFPRELIMINARYAPP

Fig- Use case diagram of Android based Mobile Library

System

VII. FLOWCHARTOFTHESYSTEM

VIII. CHALLENGESANDOPPORTUNITIES

From the survey results, the Library has identified areas to

improvesupportoffacultyteachingandresearch.Theseareas

include:

• Providing abundant onlinecollections

IX.CONCLUSION

Library & Information Centre together would be able to

provide

uncompromising

information

and

intellectual

requirementstoitsuserswithauser-friendlyapproachthrough

thisandroid app.Itwill offer afullyintegratedand dynamic

environment for conductingacademic study. Multiplecopies

will ensure that resources are easily available in Reference

Section. Besides this, it will also provide the facility of

reservationofbooks..

REFERENCES

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[2]

Meera Newmon, Dr. Vandana Sengar, “ Engineering CollegeLibrary”,InternationalJournalofAdvancedResearch inComputer Science and Software Engineering, Volume 3, Issue6,June2013

[3] Felcy Lewis, T.Y. Mallaiah,St. Joseph Engineering College,“Useofinformationresourcesinengineeringcollege libraries: A compararative study”, Annals of library and informationstudies,Vol.61,june2014,pp.142-152.

[4] ChinnaBalu, C. and Reddy, Dr. V. Pulla, "ASurvey of EngineeringCollegeLibrariesinSriVenkateswaraUniversity Area,AndhraPradesh,India"(2011). LibraryPhilosophyand Practice(e-journal). Paper672.

[5]QiuyuHuang,”MobileServicesinUniversityLibrariesin China”,LibraryofHuzhouTeachersCollegeHuzhou,China

[6]China Academy of Telecommunication Research of

MIlT.(2015,January 10).

http://www.catr.cn!kxyj/qwfblbps/201303/P02013030139780 9834073.pdf.

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