Cloud Libraries Research Articles

Roadmap of Iranian digital academic libraries in the context of cloud infrastructure and becoming cloud library

PurposeThis paper aims to draw a roadmap for the presence of Iranian academic libraries in the cloud infrastructure.Design/methodology/approachThis research attends an applied-development one that is a part of developmental research due to its conceptual expansion, foresight and roadmap for the presence of cloud-based academic libraries and finally, becoming cloud libraries. Because of providing a roadmap template, the presence of academic digital libraries in the cloud and becoming a cloud library is applied research. Because of providing a roadmap template, academic digital libraries’ presence in the cloud and becoming a cloud library is one of the applied research areas. The statistical population of this research includes all Iranian digital academic libraries. There were 64 digital libraries out of which 59 libraries participated in completing the questionnaire.FindingsPreliminary results from used Delphi method’s first round which was considered by 59 experts were identified typically and descriptive after appropriate component classification and editing. After identifying these factors, each of the roadmap levels in the third stage and the degree of relevance approved by the experts were reviewed and the most critical and relevant factors were identified as key components of the roadmap for the presence of cloud-based academic libraries and becoming cloud libraries. At this stage, they were selected as 24 factors, including seven factors for the first layer, eight factors for the second layer and nine factors for the third layer.Originality/valueBy introducing a roadmap for the presence of academic digital libraries in the cloud context, they will promote more and better interaction between academic libraries to offer services to users anytime and anywhere.

Research on the Development of China University Library Alliances

With the continuous development of information technology, the university library alliances (ULA) have gradually changed from “entity alliance” in the last century to the “entity body combined with digitizing brain” in the present. In the near future, smart libraries (SL) and cloud service platforms (CSP) will be the real protagonists of the library alliances. In this process, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing (CC) technology will become an important trend. The continuous development of China University Library Alliance (CULA) is the result of using emerging information technology to continuously satisfying the needs of readers. In the era of big data, the analysis of mass document data will become a new topic in the development of ULA, and its service focuses will gradually be transferred from traditional business to document data. With the development of AI and CC, focusing on the intelligent, specialization and individuality of the service is the inevitable trend. This article mainly adopts the research method of comparative library science and historical analysis to explain the important characteristics of different development stages of CULA, to analyze the problems of “entity alliances” and “hybrid alliances”, and then to explain why cloud libraries of big data (BD) and smart libraries will be the mainstream of CULA.

مستقبل مهنة المكتبات والمعلومات في بيئة الحوسبة السحابية : المتطلبات والتحديات

الحوسبة السحابية | المكتبات السحابية | النظم الآلية المعتمدة على الحوسبة | الإعارة الإلكترونية | الكتب الإلكترونية | Cloud Computing | Cloud Libraries | Computerized Systems Based on Computing | E-Lending

Cloud Computing: A Play for Vital Role in Libraries

Cloud computing is a new breed of service offered over the Internet, which has completely changed the way one can use the power of computers irrespective of geographic location. It has brought in new avenues for organisations and businesses to offer services using hardware or software or platform of third party sources, thus saving on cost and maintenance. This paper is mainly highlights for history, what is cloud computing?, why cloud computing?, characteristics & features, types, deployment models & components, six attributes, seven ways to get started with cloud computing, properties, initiatives, applications in libraries, beyond library discovery services, service providers of cloud computing for libraries, role, advantages, disadvantages, benefits & issues of cloud computing, standardisation, research trends, cloud computing in India, examples of cloud libraries, cloud computing is the wave of the future.

Cloud libraries

Purpose– The present paper is an attempt to describe in detail the concept of Cloud computing in conjunction with libraries. It describes in detail about Cloud libraries, transition of libraries toward Cloud, its need, features, Cloud library components, types of Cloud libraries, Cloud library infrastructure, key players as well as role of Cloud librarians.Design/methodology/approach– Based on an extensive literature survey, the basic conceptions of Cloud libraries were developed.Findings– Various concepts of Cloud libraries have been proposed in the literature that will be instrumental in understanding the theoretical foundations of Cloud libraries.Originality/value– Till date no any theoretical foundation exists on the concept of Cloud libraries. The paper is one of the first attempts to give shape to the libraries based on Cloud computing platform.

Cloud Libraries: A Novel Application of Cloud Computing

Libraries all over the world suffer from common problems like flexibility associated with the digital data, lower levels of efficiency, and huge cost involved in managing the entire IT infrastructure themselves. Few options are available when it comes to collaborating with other libraries as well which is the prime reason for subordinate levels of efficiency. Cloud computing would help us in bridging the gap between digital libraries and IT. Sharing of data among the libraries will in principle reduce the overall cost and increase the efficiency. Capital expenditure done on infrastructure will chiefly be converted into operational expenditure. It will also enhance the users’ experience and will help in making the libraries a lot more scalable.

Cloud libraries

This paper explores information technologies and services that allow organizations to operate more efficiently and at less cost by using commercial data-processing centers and data centers. The services provided by these centers are referred to as cloud computing and/or cloud services, and are increasingly often applied in different fields. It is highly relevant for the library community to pay close attention to and consider the possibility of using these services, which can lead to the emergence of a new area, viz., cloud libraries.