Smart Library Management System

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: The library plays a crucial role in education, and its staff often face tedious tasks such as lending, and tagging books. Library users also encounter problems such as finding, borrowing, and renewing books. To overcome these obstacles, a proposed smart library management system based on RFID scanning can make the library experience more convenient and practical for both users and staff. The system will integrate ID cards into the library management process, automating many tasks such as borrowing and returning books. This will make it easier for users and staff to manage their workloads more efficiently. The project is motivated by several challenges faced by the current library system, such as loss of book information, slow transaction processing, and difficulty in updates. The proposed library management system has a feature where the login and logout timings of students or faculty members are posted onto the Thingspeak server of the IoT cloud. This feature helps in maintaining a record of the entry and exit times of the students or faculty members, which can be useful in tracking their activity in the library. The data stored on the Thingspeak server can be accessed remotely and can be used for generating reports, analyzing usage patterns, and making informed decisions about the library's operations. This feature enhances the transparency and accountability of the system and ensures that the library management can keep track of the library's activity even when they are not physically present. The system has a significant feature where it sends a text message to the registered mobile number if the due date for returning the book has passed. This feature ensures that the students or faculty members are reminded about the book they borrowed and prompts them to return the book within the stipulated time. This is a very important feature as it helps in maintaining the discipline of returning books on time and avoids fines