Smart Library Circulation & Automation System (SLCAS)

Overview

The Smart Library Circulation & Automation System (SLCAS) is designed to automate the management of a university library. It enables librarians to manage library resources, users, borrowing and returning operations, reservations, searching, sorting, reporting, and data persistence through an interactive Java Swing graphical user interface.

Features

• Add and remove library items
• Borrow and return books
• Reservation queue for unavailable items
• Undo last deletion using a Stack
• Search using:
  • Linear Search
  • Binary Search
  • Recursive Search
• Sort using:
  • Selection Sort
  • Merge Sort
• View library statistics
• Generate reports:
  • Most Borrowed Items
  • Users with Overdue Items
  • Category Distribution
• Save and load library data from files
• Interactive Java Swing GUI with multiple panels

Technologies Used

• Java
• Java Swing
• Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
• ArrayList
• Queue
• Stack
• Arrays
• File Handling

Project Structure

src/
│
├── controller/
├── gui/
├── model/
└── utils/

data/

Design Concepts

The project demonstrates:

• Abstraction
• Inheritance
• Polymorphism
• Encapsulation
• Composition
• Interfaces
• Event-Driven Programming
• Recursion
• Searching Algorithms
• Sorting Algorithms