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Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION
A library is a collection of sources of information and similar resources, made
accessible to defined community for reference or borrowing. Learning Resource Center
occupies a very important place in school. It was known as comfortable and quiet place
wherein most of the students can spend their time seeking, studying and gaining
knowledge. It is a place with number of books that were arranged according to cater the
needs of each student with a variety of resources that guide students to academic success.
Learning Resource Center works hard to support and enrich the knowledge of the
students, because they can successfully seek information and ideas for educational
purposes. Library provides wide range of information to help the students for better
understanding of their lesson.
Every school has its own library or learning resource center. There are many
students who love to study and gain knowledge, but sadly most of them nowadays rely to
technology to seek information and references that are sometimes not reliable rather than
on a library. Millennial students are those who study in the front of the computer. They
always search their assignment by the use of computer and internet. Many students today
refer to library as a boring place wherein they inculcate that books are boring as well.
We are now living in the 21st century and we cannot deny the fact that technology
is already part of our lives. Technology plays a big role to the life of every student. No
matter how conducive the library is, for students it is evident that browsing the net to
look for a certain books or topic is a way easier than finding the appropriate book at the
school learning resource center.
Background of the Study
The researchers became interested in pursuing this study because they have
noticed that most of the students nowadays rely on technology rather than textbooks that
can be found inside the library. Their common reason is that going to the library is time
consuming rather than browsing the net to search for a certain topic. Southern Luzon
State University's learning resource center or library stated as a small library with only
few book inside of it. Students do not stay at the library due to its limited number of
books, as a result, most of the students would just refer to surf the net to search for a
lesson or topic. After several years, the school library is now known as a comfortable
place for most number of students. The learning resource center is now a fully-air
conditioned library with huge number of books. However, undeniably, students still
prefer to use technology to look for a topic they want to find because it does not demand
a lot of time. This appear to be a strong belief that no matter how many books a library
can contain, students would always choose something that will make their life easy. Due
to this dilemma, the researchers became interested to create software wherein students
can access the library, through technology, for a better convenience in a way that we can
browse a certain topic or book beforehand. A system that the students can easily reserve a
book to borrow, not because it is an online system, it does not mean that they do not need
to go to the library. The researchers propose this study to make our library more
beneficial to the students in line with technology. This group choses the students and
some faculty of the State University to be the respondents of their study because they
observed that most of them are fond of using technology to search for a lesson or topic.
Objectives
The main objective of this study is to develop and design a program that will
enhance the use and managing of a learning resource.
Specifically, this study aims to accomplish the following:
1. To determine if the Web-based Learning Resource Management System is applicable
in SLSU-Tiaong Campus Library.
2. To know if the system will be helpful to the students of SLSU-Tiaong Campus; and
3. To determine the level of acceptability of the “Web Based Learning Resource
Management System for SLSU-TC Library”
in terms of:
a. Functionality
b. Performance
c. Security
d. System Design
Significance of the Study

The results of this study would be beneficial first, to those students who are using
their school learning resource center. It will help them to access easily to their school
learning resource center in seeking information regarding with their studies. It will
provide them knowledge and information about their school learning resource center.
Second, to those teachers who are also using learning resource. It will also beneficial to
them because they can also easily access to their learning resource center in looking for
the topics they need in their lessons. Third, it will be very helpful to the administrators
because it will provide them easy and more convenient in managing their school learning
resource. They can easily find out the numbers of the students and teachers who accessed
the learning resource center. They can also easily store the data and arrange it accordingly
to cater the needs of their clients. Lastly, to the future researchers because they can use
this study to serve as a source of information to their own research work.
Scope and Limitation
This study is the continuation of the limitation of the study that created last year.
Unlike the previous one, this will deal with the web-based system of a learning resource.
It still contains the same properties such as it can easily look for some resource that are
available inside of the learning resource center, borrowing of a book and monitoring the
attendance of the clients who are engaged in using the learning resource. However, this
time the researchers put some additional features on it like the client can reserve a book
that they need to borrow and, because it is a web-based system, it will be deployed to the
web so the client will see the available resource beforehand because it is already in the
web. The system is only limited to the programmed as well as the software used in the
web based learning resource management system for the university. It is also limited as a
learning resource center system and web pages for the social utilization of the Campus.
The acceptability of this proposes project will cover the perceptions of 30 stratified
randomly selected students and faculty of the University based on the self-made
questionnaires of the researchers given to them.
Definition of Terms
Learning Resource Center a facility within a school, which contains information
sources that serve as a supplemental educational tool of learning to every student inside
the school.
Web-based System it is system that deploy into the web so that the users can access the
learning resource center using technology.
Software is a program that runs on a computer and performs certain functions.
Database is a large collection of data and information that is organize and used on a
computer.
Website is a collection of web pages that are connected into internet and its location is
found in a computer.
Barcode Scanner translated barcode symbols into digital form. Use to scan barcode on
the student’s ID or library card and books.
Library Management System use to improve, manage, and to have an organize
management in a library.

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Chapter 1

A library is a collection of sources of information and similar resources, made

accessible to defined community for reference or borrowing. Learning Resource Center

understanding of their lesson.

school learning resource center.

Background of the Study

enhance the use and managing of a learning resource.

Specifically, this study aims to accomplish the following:

1. To determine if the Web-based Learning Resource Management System is applicable

in SLSU-Tiaong Campus Library.

3. To determine the level of acceptability of the “Web Based Learning Resource

Management System for SLSU-TC Library”

Significance of the Study

this study to serve as a source of information to their own research work.

Scope and Limitation

questionnaires of the researchers given to them.

Learning Resource Center a facility within a school, which contains information

learning resource center using technology.

Software is a program that runs on a computer and performs certain functions.

the student’s ID or library card and books.

Library Management System use to improve, manage, and to have an organize

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