President's Choice SoftwareFunctional Specification
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President's Choice Software Functional Specification Glossary |
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| Category | Specifies the loaning period for that specific element in the database; can be one of: 'overnight', 'two week loan', or 'reserved'. With reference to customers the category is one of: 'customer', 'librarian', or 'supervisor'. |
| Circulation Status | Status of a specific book copy; can be one of 'on loan', 'overdue', 'on hold', 'available', or 'out of circulation' |
| Customer | An individual who borrows books from the library. Customer may also refer to the user record of a librarian or supervisor. |
| Librarian | An employee at the library; by default all employees are librarians. |
| LMS | Library Management System |
| Media Type | Specifies the type of media of which that element in the database is; can be one of: 'CD-ROM', 'cassette', 'journal', 'book', 'film', 'laserdisc', or 'book' |
| Restricted | A restricted customer is one who, due to other circumstances, cannot borrow any books. |
| Supervisor | A Librarian that has special privileges within the LMS. |
| Transaction | Any action the Customer is allowed to perform: this includes borrowing/returning a book, putting a book on hold, paying fines, etc. |
| User ID | User ID refers to a unique ID number assigned to each customer. |
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