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Online Library System Vision Document
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Introduction
The purpose of this document is to collect, analyze and define the high-level needs and features of the Library Management System. It focuses on the capabilities and facilities needed by the stakeholder who is University of Houston – Clearlake (as the project is being developed for University of Houston – Clearlake Library) and target users the Librarian, employees of the Library, users of the Library (Students, Professors, etc.). The details of what all are the needs Library Management System fulfils these needs are detailed in the use-case and supplementary specifications.
Purpose
The purpose of this document is to describe the external behavior of the Library Management System. The Vision Document captures very high-level requirements and design constraints, which gives the reader an understanding of the Library Management System to be developed. Requirements Specification defines and describes the operations, interfaces, performance, and quality assurance requirements of the Library Management System. The document also describes the nonfunctional requirements such as the user interfaces. It also describes the design constraints that are to be considered when the system is to be designed.
Scope
The Library Management System that is to be developed provides the members of the Library and employees of the library with books information, online blocking of books and many other facilities. The Library Management System is supposed to have the following features.
Stakeholder and User Descriptions
The Library Management System that is to be developed provides the members of the Library and employees of the library with books information, online blocking of books and many other facilities. The Library Management System is supposed to have the following features.
The product provides the members with online blocking of books capabilities and the library Management System is up and running all day.
The system provides logon facility to the users.
The system provides the members with the option to check their account and/or change their options like password of the account whenever needed all through the day during the library hours.
The system allows the members to block the books 24 hours a day and all the through the semester.
The system lets the library staff to check which all members have blocked the books and whether they can borrow any more books or not.
The system allows the Librarian to create the books catalog, add/delete books and maintain the books catalog.
The system updates the billing system as and when the member borrows or returns a book.
The book catalog is automated and the decision of offering the book based on the category of the book is automatically decided.
We also have an order department, which manages to add or remove a book from the Library.
User Environment
The users of the system are members, librarian of the University and the administrators who maintain the system. The members and the librarian are assumed to have basic knowledge of the computers and Internet browsing. The administrators of the system to have more knowledge of the internals of the system and is able to rectify the small problems that may arise due to disk crashes, power failures and other catastrophes to maintain the system. The proper user interface, users manual, online help and the guide to install and maintain the system must be sufficient to educate the users on how to use the system without any problems.
The system needs to be supported on mobile devices. It requires Internet Explorer or Netscape. It should be able to work on both PC and MAC.