Auto Search System of Library-books, University-Students, Laboratory-Equipment, Transport-Routes Of Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad

Abstract

Auto Search is online information and data entry system developed especially for the students, their parents, teachers, and the staff of Quaid-e-Azam University. This system covers the search facility for transport unit, librmy books, student data, & equipment in various departments. This is an era of internet and all and sundry have access to internet. Internet connectivity is avai lable in all departments, most of the offices, and a dedicated y net cafe is functional in the library. Most of the students, teachers, and staff also enjoy this facility at their homes. Transport department/unit of this university is very impOliant section as 95% students, teachers, and staff members use university buses so they are very much concerned with the time-tables and bus-numbers of the vehicles going to and coming from their homes. This need is met manually by posting these time-tables on the black boards of this section. People who are desirous of knowing the time-table have to go to these boards to watch thp. speci fieel route detail s. So this would provide a very useful and convenient mode to know the desired route by simply logging in our website and giving the name of route or some words of it as well as the whole time-table of each service name i.e. Islamabad Service or Rawalpindi Service. Similarly teachers, students, and staff need various books and that is why they have to frequently visit the library of the university. In this auto search system we are also providing the means to search the desired book(s) without physically going to the library. In Simple Search you can search on book's title or author's name, you can just write few letters/words in this search text field and press Enter key to see the results. In Advance Search you have to click the advance search link then it gives you a comprehensive search to find out your required book. You can use this search in many ways e.g. subj ect/Area, Title, Author, and Year wise search. In year search, you can search books by giving exact publication year, before any given year, and after any given year. Similarly other convenient modes of searches are also available which are covered in detail in the relevant sections. The transport and library book search is maintained by the administrator but is for use of students and teachers or anyone who wants to search. Contrary to this student record search and laboratory equipment search facility is meant only for administrator, it means it is not open for search by any user. This data on student qIld laboratory is only for record keeping for university. In student data record, administrator can delete, modify, or add any data and he can search any data by giving any two of student name, department name, roll !registration number. .. This is basically automation of manual records of university administration section. Similarly in laboratory equipment record, administrator can delete, modify, or add any data and he can search any data by giving any of equipment ID, equipment name, etc. This is basically automation of manual records of laboratory equipment of Computer Centre. The system is developed to provide convenience to the prospect users who do not have much and convenient Information gathered altogether online (because no such online application i.e. related to Routes, Books, Students, Laboratory Equipments search, data entry, updating and modification, is available). So keeping in view the problems of all these people we are going to develop a site, which can be used by students, teachers, staff, and IT Personals hired for automation of university's different departments and sections. The Users need not to be registered for viewing bus-routes information but no right to access t the admini5'trntion-pages to change/modify/add/delete any information/data. The Administrator(s) will be registered first, then he/they will be authorized to have access to the di fferent features of the site e.g. update/add/delete the record for library, administration section, transport section, laboratory equipment section. All these modifications/additions/deletion will be done at any time (i.e. Monthly, Weekly, and occasionally basis or need basis) by the Adminis}rator after a secure login. Then the information can be displayed to the Users of the system. User of the site can send their feed back via email by clicking the linle of email address of the site developer(s).As far as Administrative tasks are concerned these are: Weekly/Monthly Transport Route Administration Weeldy/Monthly Library Books Administration Weekly/Monthly Student Section Administration Weekly/Monthly Laboratory Section Administration