TY  - JOUR
T1  - Online Library System to Dr. Richard Pathirana Public Library in Galle Area in Sri Lanka
AU - Priyanath Jayasinghe, Kusum 
JO  - Asian Journal of Information Technology
VL  - 19
IS  - 12
SP  - 279
EP  - 283
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1682-3915
DO  - ajit.2020.279.283
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ajit.2020.279.283
KW  - physical books
KW  -E-Books
KW  -online-library system
KW  -Galle
KW  -Dr. Richard Pathirana Public Library
AB  - In Southern province there are available
2,654,000 of population and 1,063,334 of people who are
in Galle district. Also, there are 101,159 of people in
Galle Municipal Council. At present 225,458 of school
children are in Galle district. The members of the Dr.
Richard Pathirana Public Library-Galle are 40988 and
among these members most consists of students and other
consists of adults in according to 2020 statistic of Dr.
Richard Pathirana Public Library. Too Dr. Richard
Pathirana Public Library, Galle consists of 118822 Books
and among these Books 22200 of Reference Books are
included in Public Library Galle and Public Library Galle
has three branches which are situated in Maligaspe,
MaGalle, Katugoda (Deveta). Dr. Richard Pathirana
Public Library, Galle is a main library in Galle district and
consists of large resources. At present there are no online
library system for Dr. Richard Pathirana Public Library,
Galle and maintain all its functions manually. Therefore,
they have to put fair amount of effort to prepare the user
registration, book reservation, late fine fee and annual
reports. A large number of end-user currently use this
library, therefore, it is a huge necessity to have proper
information system. In this time library faces high cost
for management and low income from external resources
such as users. Using this online library system can help to
reduce staff and retain income and also contain less
expenditure. In order to get maximum benefits from this
system, library needs at least several computers and
related equipments. According to newly proposed system,
system output maybe Electronic Books to End Users
or/and Physical Books through the library staff delivery
service. Library delivery system reduces the valuable time
of End users. The major advantage of this online system
will reduce the workload, less time consuming, less
expenditure and retain income.
ER  -