Realization of school library software application

This paper describes school library application which is used in several elementary and high schools in Serbia. It is a software solution that enables quick and comfortable work to librarians. Its purpose is keeping evidence of all books and magazines in a library and retaining information regarding checkout of these books and magazines. It considerably shortens time needed to find a person that borrowed particular book, data regarding book funds of the library and to generate reports needed for library functioning. Development of application for school libraries is realized using C# programming language at the .NET Framework 2.0 platform. Apart of evidence regarding borrowed and returned books, the program enables sending complete book list on the Internet in XML format. The list is sent by FTP on certain location at the server where school presentation is, and then it is parsed and shown in accordance to wishes and needs of particular school.