Use of Cloud Computing in Library Services / استخدام الحوسبة السحابية في خدمات المكتبة

Use of Cloud Computing in Library Services. Information technological development has brought a dramatic change in every field.

These changes impacted positively on library and information science and services.

The libraries have been automated and now moving towards paper less or virtual libraries.

New concepts are being added to ease the practices in the libraries is also accepting many new technologies in the profession.

This article overviews the basic concept of newly develop area known as cloud computing and how cloud computing works in the library services.

Keywords– Computing, Cloud, Library, Service

Now we are living in the age of knowledge and information technology. Information technology play very important role in library science. Library field facing many challenges due to applications of IT. With the advent of IT, libraries have become automated which is the basic need towards advancement followed by networks and more effort are towards virtual libraries. The emerging trends of digital libraries, e-publications, internet usage, web tools applications for libraries, consortium practices leads to the further development in library services. The latest technology trend in library science is use of cloud computing for various purposes.