A Library Management System streamlines cataloging, borrowing, and book returning, therefore offering a simple fix for library administration. It facilitates consumers' simple maintenance of member accounts, loan status tracking, book inventory management. This method reduces hand-off effort, guarantees orderly current library records, and enhances user experience.
This project is a Library Management System meant to handle book, user, and transaction processing inside a library efficiently. This system offers consistent handling of library data, user roles, and borrowing transactions, designed to showcase CRUD tasks spanning many database formats and database connections.
Key Features :
User Management: Track user information utilizing fields for user type, personal information, administrative tasks including staff members as well as library visitors.
Book Management: Title, alternate titles, author, categories, publisher, and current availability assist you to precisely manage book records.
Book Categories: Sort books in groups so that they may be easily accessed and controlled from one another.
Transactions: Record book borrow and return transactions completely including due dates, return status, and transaction types.
AVAILABLE API:
Tools Used:
Testing Tools Used:
Library :
bcryptjs
connect-mongo
body-parser
cors
dotenv
express
jsonwebtoken
moment
mongoose
nodemon
validator
Use Cases :
User Registration and Management
Add/Update/Delete Users: User registration and administration allows you to register, change, or delete fresh system users.
User Roles: Assign roles—normal or administrative user—then exercise user rights.
Book Management
Add/Update/Delete Books: add new books, change existing entries, or delete old ones.
Search Books: Search author; book names, genre; availability; classification;
Category Management
See here a list of every book falling within a particular category: ** Sort books** according to category.
Borrowing and Returning Books
Initiate Borrowing: Note a fresh borrowing transaction and adjust the book's availability state.
Return Book: Record the return, note the transaction as whole, then change availability.
Transaction Management
View Transaction History: Track borrowing and return history in Transaction Management using either user or book.
Overdue Alerts: Examine past-due records and, if needed, notify customers or apply penalties.
Database Structure :
The platform will require a relational database to manage Purchase Order and Items . Below is a proposed database structure with the key tables.
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