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📚 Library Management System (Tkinter GUI)

A desktop application built using Python and Tkinter for managing a library’s books and students. The system supports book search, student tracking, and issuing/returning books with automated penalties. It persists data using CSV files and offers a clean GUI interface for librarians.

🚀 Features

  • 🔍 Search Books & Students: Filter by title, author, student name, ID, or email.
  • 📖 Issue Books: Check availability and enforce a borrowing limit of 3 books per student.
  • 🔄 Return Books: Automatically calculates penalties based on due date.
  • 📁 Persistent CSV Data: Manages books, students, and logs via books.csv, students.csv, and logs.csv.
  • 🧾 Logs Transactions: Records all issue/return actions with timestamps and due dates.
  • 🖥️ Tabbed GUI Interface: Clean, organized interface using ttk.Notebook tabs.

📂 File Structure

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├── book.py            # Main GUI logic and backend system
├── books.csv          # Book records
├── students.csv       # Student records
├── logs.csv           # Transaction log history
├── README.md          # Project documentation
└── LICENSE            # MIT License

💾 CSV Format

books.csv

book_id,title,author,total_copies,available_copies
B001,1984,George Orwell,10,6

students.csv

student_id,name,email,borrowed_books
S001,John Doe,john@example.com,B001;B005

logs.csv

transaction_id,date,type,book_id,student_id,due_date
T20250526001000,2025-05-26,ISSUE,B001,S001,2025-06-09

🛠️ How to Run

Requirements

  • Python 3.x

Install dependencies (optional):

pip install tk

Run the app:

python book.py

🧾 Example Use Cases

  • Search for a book by title or author
  • View availability and total copies
  • Issue a book and get an auto-generated due date
  • Return a book and see calculated penalty if overdue

✍️ Author

  • Merull Shah

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.