COLLEGE RESOURCE SHARING PLATFORM

This paper presented CampusShare, a Flask and SQLite web application that lets students buy, rent and borrow academic resources within a college. The implementation provides secure registration, multi-media resource listing, keyword and category search, owner-approved requests and QR-based handover verification. It replaces scattered informal exchange with one organised process and encourages reuse of materials that would otherwise sit idle. Planned work includes ratings and reviews, trust scores, damage reporting, a full transaction history, e-mail and in-app notifications for requests and return dates, QR confirmation of returns, and a usability study with students to measure adoption and savings.

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