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GNOSIS

About

  • GNOSIS is a Library Information System, built to automate commonly used services like Adding-Issuing-Reserving-Returing-Deleting Books, and managing Members and Clerks.
  • The website is hosted on python-anywhere, check it out : http://betathetha.pythonanywhere.com/
  • For a member login, use: Username -- UG_20CS10001 and Password -- pwd
  • For a staff login, use: Username -- LIBC_LIBC_0 and Password -- libpwd1234

Software Pre-requisites

  • Python 3 or above
  • Django pre-installed

Running the Tests

  • Run python3 manage.py test on the terminal in the LIS directory to run the Unit Tests given in the Test Plan.
  • To run individual test files, run python3 manage.py test tests.test_xyz, where xyz is the name of the test file(without the .py extension).

Running the Application

  • To run the Software locally, the Librarian needs to add himself through the 'admin' page of Django as a one-time-process, after which he can create Library Clerks, Add Books, Add Members to the Library.

Things to Know

  • Run python3 manage.py runserver in the LibInfoSys/LIS directory to start running the app locally.
  • Run python3 manage.py createsuperuser to create a superuser and login through the /admin page, to create the Librarian, once at start.
  • Member unique IDs are of the form XX_YYDDAAAAA where XX represents UG or PG or RS or FAC depending on member type, YY is the year of registration and DD represents the department of the member, AAAAA standing for a unique code representing the member in the Institution.
  • Clerk unique IDs are of the form LIBC_AAAAAAAA, where AAAAAAAA represents the unique representation of the clerk in the Library.
  • Librarian unique ID can be set once at the start by the superuser.

Basic Use Cases

  • Member Registration.
  • Member Login.
  • Staff Login.

Librarian

  • Remove Members.
  • Add/Remove Clerks.
  • Check Issue Statistics of all Books.
  • Send Reminders.

Library Clerk

  • Add Books.
  • Delete those Books that are disposed by librarian.
  • Process Return of Book by a Library Member.

Library Member

  • Issue Book
  • Reserve Unavailable Book
  • Return an Issued Book.
  • Search Book in Library.
  • View Reminders.
  • View Issue History.