A Management Information System for the Library in Bucal National High School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Nowadays, modern people use advancement in technologies to find ways in making their work easier. In addition, the motivation towards learning technologies is increasing. Educational technologies can improve school services such as easier locating of books in the libraries. A system that will help those who are in charge of collecting data such as book titles, authors, book id's, number of books, and more needs to be designed and executed. It is for this reason that a management information system for the library of Bucal National High school is made. Library management system is a project which aims in developing a computerized system to maintain all daily work of library. It also has a facility of admin login through which the admin can monitor the whole system. It also has a facility where student can see list of books issued and its issue date and return date after logging in their accounts.

METHODS

The system was programmed using the researchers’ pre-designed concept with the application of different programs such as Microsoft Visual Studio 2015. Its development followed every phases of prototyping model: planning, analyzing, design, testing, system prototype and final implementations.The system was tested for functionality, reliability, usability, efficiency, maintainability and portability of programs and features which can be determined by indicators 1 and 0 corresponding to success or fail, respectively. Ten sets of data per function were collected, analyzed, and interpreted.

RESULTS

Results of the ten trials on functionality, reliability, usability, efficiency, maintainability and portability reveal 10 out of 10 scores each.

DISCUSSIONS

Results show the success rate of 100 percent in all components of the program management system. This is due to the fact that during programming, efforts were made to ensure 100 percent success rate for each part of the program.