Chapter 1 Aklat
Introduction
The STI College Global City Library has been in the institution for a very long time. It envision themselves as a supportive service to the technologically empowered society whose development and growth is driven by a knowledge-based workforce by providing expedient and effective access to high quality library services, collection in a variety of formats and information resources designed to meet the curriculum research, professional, intellectual, creative and personal needs of the STI community. The head librarian is Ms. Norady D. Mercado. The library staffs are Ms. Jonabel Alpanta (Technical/Filipinina), Ms. Rhoda Bautista (Circulation/Reference) and Mr. Cedrix Moreno (I.T. Staff). The library hours during regular semester from Monday to Friday are 7am to 8pm and Saturday 8am-6:30pm. It is closed on Sundays and official holidays.
There are estimated 5, 000 different books in the library. It is classified according to its subject and call number. The Librarians come up with a unique identifier for the books. Like what we see at the bottom of spine of the book. All the students, faculties, employees, etc., are borrowers in the library. The average number of borrowers per day is maximum of thirty borrowers. Borrowers are classified into STI students, STI officials (Faculty members and employees) and other researchers (Non members of the STI Community).
1.1 Statement of the Problem 1.1.1 General Problem
The Library is currently using the old version of Libro System: Mabini Edition software for monitoring the borrowing and returning of books. Most of the features that are being offered are not used by the librarian/s like reports needed by Commission on Higher Education (CHED). It is an obsolete version and is not being supported anymore by the developer and there is a training that must be taken in order to maximize the use of the current library system in exchange for a fee. They cannot implement new system like blocking delinquent
The STI College Global City Library has been in the institution for a very long time. It envision themselves as a supportive service to the technologically empowered society whose development and growth is driven by a knowledge-based workforce by providing expedient and effective access to high quality library services, collection in a variety of formats and information resources designed to meet the curriculum research, professional, intellectual, creative and personal needs of the STI community. The head librarian is Ms. Norady D. Mercado. The library staffs are Ms. Jonabel Alpanta (Technical/Filipinina), Ms. Rhoda Bautista (Circulation/Reference) and Mr. Cedrix Moreno (I.T. Staff). The library hours during regular semester from Monday to Friday are 7am to 8pm and Saturday 8am-6:30pm. It is closed on Sundays and official holidays.
There are estimated 5, 000 different books in the library. It is classified according to its subject and call number. The Librarians come up with a unique identifier for the books. Like what we see at the bottom of spine of the book. All the students, faculties, employees, etc., are borrowers in the library. The average number of borrowers per day is maximum of thirty borrowers. Borrowers are classified into STI students, STI officials (Faculty members and employees) and other researchers (Non members of the STI Community).
1.1 Statement of the Problem 1.1.1 General Problem
The Library is currently using the old version of Libro System: Mabini Edition software for monitoring the borrowing and returning of books. Most of the features that are being offered are not used by the librarian/s like reports needed by Commission on Higher Education (CHED). It is an obsolete version and is not being supported anymore by the developer and there is a training that must be taken in order to maximize the use of the current library system in exchange for a fee. They cannot implement new system like blocking delinquent