Architecture Design Of A LSP Based Library Management System

Library management system, which is the foundation of libraries'vocational work and reader services, performs direct effects on the quality and efficiency of library work. Presently used library management systems do not adapt to the user service based management thoughts during the new economic era that is based on network economy, knowledge economy and electronic commerce, and can hardly meet libraries'modern management requirements. It brings some negative effects on the transformation of library's service and management mode. In this paper we researched the most popular library management systems domestic and overseas, analysed the problems and challenges of library's service and management mode, predictd the development trends in the future, and put forward a new library management concept, which is called Library Service Planning(LSP). We discussed the theoretical basis and technical conditions of LSP, analysed the business processes, service contents and service modes systematically, and designed the architecture of a LSP concept library integrated management system, which is based on information technology and systematical management thoughts, and fits library's development trends well.Researches on library management systems domestic and overseas show that:①Most of the current library management systems are merely business process integrated systems and completely separated with digital library systems. This means the traditional library and digital library are separated on service, and lowers down the efficiency of utiliziton of library resources.②The business process automation systems can not be used to manage the whole library management, nor be the library information exchange platform.③With the development of digital libraries and a growing number of independent systems, it becomes increasingly difficult to integrate all of the operation flows.④There is a lack of the high-level, in-depth and personalized literature information services, and the initiative to track the latest researches and literature communications on disciplines domestic and overseas.Through this study, we discussed the theoretical basis, request analysis and architecture design for building a library management system with advanced management concepts, fully integrated library management, and flexible links between knowledge services and the corresponding resources, changed the original library automation systems at the core of business processes to the library management system at the core of user services for building a librarian based library modern management system and a reader based knowledge service system with high flexibility that adapt to the needs of library development. In this case we change the library's service and management conception and optimize its management model to enhance the utilization rates of resources, meet users' information requests, improve service quality, and provide a integration solution for the library traditional business and digital resources management.