Intro - Library Management System

The project aims and objectives that will be achieved after completion of this project. The aims and objectives are as follows:

• Online book issue
• Request column for librarian for providing new books
• A separate column for digital library
• Student login page where students can find books issued by him/her and date of return.
• A search column to search availability of books
• A teacher login page where mentors can add any events being organized in the college and important suggestions regarding books.
• Online notice board about the workshop
• Subscription for emails and newsletters (Advance Level task)

Status

• In api/views.py, Notice serializer
  • for students allow POST request ( Do not allow modification of is_approved field ). Do not allow acces to modify, delete.
  • separate view for librarian to approve notices.
  • by deafult only approved notices to be put up on noticeboard

Development - Do when working on deployment to Heroku

1. Install requirements from requirements.txt ( preferably setup a virtual environment!)

2. Set environment variables SECRET_KEY and DEBUG to get your website up and running on a 'nix OS ( guide for other OS )

   $ export SECRET_KEY=yourKeyHere
   $ export DEBUG=True #for development, for production set False