Designing And Implementation Of Library Online Book-CD Management System

Book-CD is a special type of document resource, it has many characteristics different from other types of document resources. Recent years, with the fast growing number of books with Book-CDs, the quantity of Book-CDs is also growing very rapidly, therefore, how to effectively manage and use those Book-CDs has become a unnegligible aspect of library work.The author of this thesis has developed an online Book-CD management system based on the actual library work of hers. In the paper, an research and analysis on Book-CD resource is carried out at first and several different management methods of Book-CDs are compaired, and then, based on the actual needs of the author’s library, the database、functional and non-functional requirements of the system is summarized, at last a detailed elaboration on the process of designing and realization of the online Book-CD management system is made. In the paper the author put more emphasis on the analysis and the designing process of the system and offered some of the program code of the realization.Also, in the thesis some difficult problems that librarians might encounter when managing Book-CDs are discussed, such as how to store the continuously growing number of Book-CDs in cd-servers with limited capacity and how to relate the Book-CD management system and the OPAC system of library. The author has offered some solutions to those problems and some of the program codes.