CLOUD COMPUTING IN LIBRARIES: NEW PARADIGM IN LIBRARY & INFORMATION SERVICES / الحوسبة السحابية في المكتبات: نموذج جديد في خدمات المكتبات والمعلومات

CLOUD COMPUTING IN LIBRARIES: NEW PARADIGM IN LIBRARY & INFORMATION SERVICES

Keywords : Cloud Computing, Cloud Library Framework.

Abstract: Information and communication technologies are developing very fast and providing us opportunities due to their benefits such as reduced cost, anytime, anywhere availability, as well as its elasticity and flexibility.

Cloud computing is one of the newly emerged models for technology that provide us the facility of central remote of services to maintain data, software and application through the use of the Internet. 

Nowadays, cloud computing widely applicable in many areas such as libraries, information centers, in-house applications and digital library services.

This paper provides an overview of cloud computing technology, initiatives, and also discusses application of cloud computing in LICs and how it could be beneficial to LICs.

Introduction:

Today the age of Information and communication Technology world and the Information and Communication play a main role in the libraries and information centers.

There is emergence of the various technologies in the libraries.

Cloud computing is the new technologies in the stage of Information Communication Technology. 

With the use of cloud computing, anyone can gain access at any time through any device, via the Internet, to data and file which you have uploaded, or to software applications which you need to use for personal or professional use. The new concept of cloud and libraries has generated a new model called cloud libraries. 

Using of cloud computing may vary with the libraries nature, services and information needs and using of cloud computing with in libraries can be development of digital libraries, acquisition, corporate cataloguing, storage and sharing the resources on virtual environment on the web.