Research on the Integration Interface Techniques for Library Management System and Campus Smart Card System

Library management system and campus card systems are all specialized systems with great maturity. For the integration of these systems, a system integration interface technique based on the third-party interface gateway provided by campus card system is proposed. By deploying an IC card mediator program on the terminal machines for book borrowing, the mediator program will communicate with the gateway to authenticate the cardholders, and to convert the code of IC card to library reader code. Meanwhile, the mediator program can also do the operations for payment. In this way, the purpose of substituting IC cards for bar cards was achieved. The interface technique was applied to many universities, for example Zhejiang Gongshang University etc, and the result illustrates that this technique can successfully fulfill the integration needs of library management system and the campus smart card system.