International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056 Volume: 07 Issue: 08 | Aug 2020 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072 © 2020, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 7.529 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 4230 Automation of Library Management System Trishya Angela Babs 1 , Irene Rose Mathew 2 , Annit Stanly Johns 3 , Ben P. Babu 4 1-3 UG Scholars, Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Govt. Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Kerala, India 4 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Govt. Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Kerala, India ---------------------------------------------------------------------***---------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract - Libraries are the treasure house of books, a place that provides unrestricted access to information of vast multitude in many formats. The systematic management of a huge library and the excessive manual routine work done by a librarian in maintaining the same has led to the idea of automating the entire library. Over the years, numerous library management software have emerged to promote this cause. Starting from cataloguing information about all the books into a database to relying on a library management system with integrated database to monitor all incoming and outgoing services, library automation has developed tremendously. Nevertheless, there is still room for efficiency. Even when the search is automated, the librarian has to handpick the book and deliver it. Through this paper, we present a feasible design solution, the Automation of Library Management System, with a front end of graphical user interface along with its related database and a back end of entirely mechanized shelf. When a person searches for a particular book using the Graphical User Interface (GUI), the location of that book is identified from the database and the shelf automatically delivers that book by the technique of differential motion. Furthermore, the shelf and the database are mutually coordinated using Radio Frequency (RF) communication. This paper puts forth a novel structural model for library shelves to synchronize with the database management system and GUI. The discussed solution can lead to new generation libraries that will be completely automated and error free, with a constantly updating database. Keywords: Database, Differential motion, Graphical User Interface (GUI), Library Automation, Radio Frequency (RF) Communication. 1. INTRODUCTION A library as a repository of knowledge houses collection of books, both reference and general, technical reports, periodicals, journals, conference proceedings etc. The primary purpose of the library is to provide resources and services in a variety of media to meet the needs of individuals and groups for education, information and personal development. In particular, a library easily contains hundreds of thousands of books that are frequently borrowed and returned back to the shelves. Usually a librarian is responsible of keeping track of the books in the library. To facilitate users to easily locate a particular book, books are placed in dedicated areas and sorted in a running sequence based on their call numbers. Typically during the issuance of a book, the staffs have to pick the books and hand it over to the person to whom the books are being issued or the person itself has to search for that particular book through the entire library shelves. This might be an easy task in case the library floor area is small. Also, to search for the books, humans take a lot of time as many a times the books get overlooked by the human eye. Library staffs have to ensure that the books are placed in order, an extremely labor intensive and time consuming process. They first need to perform shelf reading, i.e., manually search for books that are misplaced in the wrong book sequence, then pick up the book and insert it in the correct location which seems to be tedious. Thus to facilitate the process of book finding and to conciliate the grievous work of library staffs, it lead to the idea of automating library processes from maintaining book database to finding and delivery of the book and same in returning of the book. Other important factors leading to automation of a library system include information explosion, increase in collection of libraries, inability of users to explore the unlimited literature and information of their interest, wastage of user’s time in locating the information and advances in the computer and communication technology. We propose an autonomous solution for efficient library management to tackle all drawbacks of a conventional library. The system aims to search for any specific book in any shelf as per user requirement, and if found, deliver it as soon as possible to the user. And similarly, to return the book in its predetermined position without human intervention. We suggest a complete change to the library as a whole rather than modifying the prevailing system. The proposed system consists of reformed library shelves which are designed to provide a mechanism to retrieve a particular book when the location of that book is given as the input. When a person searches for a specific book in the database, the location coordinates of that book is identified and the shelf mechanically delivers that book. The change in status of each book is immediately recorded in the database. Similarly when a book is returned, on specifying the book details, the location is identified and then the mechanized shelf replaces the book. In this paper, we first go through all relevant works in this field that has aided our system design. The proposed system with its software and hardware description are detailed in