DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ONLINE BOOK CLUB MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
ABSTRACT
Reading groups have become extremely popular over the past years. And because of their successes in so many communities throughout the nation, the researcher want to implement an online book club management system, to enable students and other book lovers enjoy reading and can easily find a reading group close to their community. The system which will be implemented on the internet and can be accessed on any operating device, either desktop or mobile devices connected to the internet. The system communicates with the database residing on a remote server. This system has been built with HTML, CSS and PHP.
CHAPTER ONE
1.1 INTRODUCTION
People who read at least seven books a year are reported to be 2.3 times more intelligent than people who read only
one. That stat, floating around the Internet, has been attributed jointly (and separately) to the U.S. Department of
Labor and a survey by Yahoo!, Whether that information is strictly reliable or not, executives and avid readers everywhere will attest to the value of reading—for personal development, leadership purpose, training, continuous
learning and company innovation. To enhance reading culture among students, starting a book club with books that
speak to career advancement and fulfillment.
For promoting reading and developing lifelong reading habits have always been parallel goals with developing
information literacy through their integrated school library programs. This has traditionally included developing
extensive collections of quality literature books (books and novels), as well as rich information books, all in support of
the school curriculum and as resources to support positive reading habits. Computerization and the pervasive
infiltration of the Internet have dramatically altered all areas of work for teacher-librarians. The school library
community has fully engaged in management uses of technologies: automating library collections; providing
reference online; providing access to databases and electronic materials; as well as building a significant virtual
presence through school library websites, archives of student work, and collected bookmarks of thematic resources.
However, the traditional areas of promoting reading and providing readers’ advisory have often remained static and
bound by face-to-face methods such as conducting book talks; building in-library displays; and bulletin board
displays, as well as evidence that by improving students’ access to reading materials and opportunities to interact
with peers about their reading, teachers can do a better job of helping all readers become skillful, motivated readers.
Since technology is seen as occupying more and more of students time out of school, it would seem important to
explore how these two areas might unite to explore how new technologies such as e-books and e-readers support the
goals of motivating students to read. Since digital technologies are so appealing to today’s youth, research seems to
support the value of developing an online book club system as a factor in motivating young readers to read more with
some evidence they may be particularly valuable in motivating reluctant readers. Online book club will enable e-readers also have been used in research exploring children’s reading comprehension (Larson, 2010). Evidence from
this work suggests e-readers offer more than just portability and storage capacity; they support readers through their
use of multiple tools and text features such as text-to-speech options, dictionaries and note-taking capabilities
(Larson, 2010). There can be little doubt that e-books and e-readers are here to stay. In fact, data from
publishers/distributors of e-books and the makers/marketers of e-readers have all indicated that growing sales and
growing demands will lead to further innovations in these technologies and wider acceptance of their use. This
information, coupled with evidence that those who own an e-reader buy more books now than before they owned an e-reader (Duncan, 2010), should awaken teacher-librarians to a reality that looms before them, one that holds great promise in our goals of supporting literacy and promoting reading habits.
1.2 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The purpose of this research is to develop an online book club management system, to increase the reading culture among members of this online community, to enhance the sharing of books, proper reading, review books, rate books and connect with other readers.
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ONLINE BOOK CLUB MANAGEMENT SYSTEM