📚 Library Management System

A simple and modern Library Management System built with Django.

Designed as a learning project to practice Django fundamentals, authentication, models, relationships, forms, CRUD operations, and template inheritance.

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✨ Features

• 🔐 User Registration & Login
• 📚 Browse Books
• ✍️ Manage Authors
• 🏷️ Manage Categories
• ➕ Add Books
• ✏️ Update Books
• 🗑️ Delete Books
• 📖 Borrow Books
• 🔄 Return Books
• 🖼️ Book Cover Images
• 👤 User Accounts
• 📱 Responsive Design

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🛠️ Built With

• 🐍 Python
• 🌿 Django
• 🎨 HTML & CSS
• 🅱️ Bootstrap
• 🗄️ SQLite
• 🖼️ Pillow

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📂 Project Structure

Library_Management_System/
│
├── config/
│   └── Project configuration
│
├── main/
│   └── Home, About & Contact
│
├── accounts/
│   └── Registration, Login & Logout
│
├── library/
│   └── Books, Authors, Categories & Borrow Records
│
├── templates/
│   ├── base.html
│   ├── nav.html
│   ├── foot.html
│   └── ...
│
├── manage.py
└── requirements.txt

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🚀 Getting Started

1. Clone the repository

git clone <your-repository-url>

2. Go to the project directory

cd Library_Management_System

3. Create a virtual environment

python -m venv venv

4. Activate the virtual environment

Windows:

venv\Scripts\activate

5. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

6. Run migrations

python manage.py migrate

7. Create a superuser

python manage.py createsuperuser

8. Start the development server

python manage.py runserver

Then open:

http://127.0.0.1:8000/

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🧩 Main Models

The project currently includes:

👤 User
   │
   └── Borrow Records
          │
          └── 📚 Book
                ├── ✍️ Author
                └── 🏷️ Category

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🌱 Learning Goals

This project is being developed to strengthen practical Django skills, including:

• Django project & app structure
• Custom User Model
• Authentication
• Model Relationships
• Model Forms
• CRUD Operations
• File Uploads
• Template Inheritance
• URL Routing
• Authentication Protection
• Database Management

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💜 Project Status

🚧 Currently in development

More features and improvements will be added as the project grows.

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👩‍💻 Author

Made with 💜 and lots of ☕ while learning Django.

Radia Mahbub

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⭐ If you like this project

Feel free to explore the code, learn from it, and build something of your own!

Learn → Build → Break → Fix → Repeat. 🐍✨