PUPRBLMS: Development And Acceptability of a Proposed Library Management System

Abstract

Managing the library in a university or school is not an easy task especially if it has huge number of books that is open for utilization and borrowing to students. The librarian faces challenges in tasks like tracking of the books on-borrow due to uncontrolled demand more particularly during examination period or research seasons. In this study, the proponents sought to measure the acceptability of the proposed Library Management System capable of handling tasks for library management. The proposed Library Management System was primarily implemented at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Ragay, Camarines Sur Branch to address the challenges of the university in terms of library management and was evaluated using a survey questionnaire that was participated by 64 students, 2 library staff, and 10 faculty members for the period of January to March 2020. Evaluation shows that there is an average rate of 4.18 with a verbal interpretation of highly acceptable. Given the evaluation results, it is believed that the proposed library management system can be implemented for library management.