Cloud computing
is a new form
of computing technology and
functions on web server, managed remotely and focuses on service.
This technology is mainly
responsible for providing infrastructure
as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software
as a service (SaaS) to others and ensures all
infrastructure and software applications are
flexible, dynamic and
usable for others. The cloud may deal with different
services and applications such as
web hosting, institutional repository,
email, mail server, data storage,
online meetings &
web conferences, and many more.
Libraries throughout the world has also started using cloud
computing for managing
e-resources access, web application hosting, online public
access catalogue, managing digital libraries, hosting different statistical software and data sets
etc. This technology may help to reduce the involvement of huge cost, save
manpower efforts, provide platform to library
users to browse
resources with ease
and utilize different
library services online. This study has been
carried
out to analyze the impact of cloud based services in library
and to understand whether cloud computing is being considered as a curse or boon.
This study will help to know about cloud computing and it
is relevant to libraries
in order to
implement the cloud technology and benefit the institutions.
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