Cloud Computing in your library’s future?How to ensure a sunny outcome.

ELAG, May 2011Carl Grant, Chief Librarian

Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing

Platformneutrality…

means your vendor becomes more efficient and effective too.

Reducedcosts

because shared costs are lower costs

Consolidate theframeworks

CONSOLIDATE OPTIMIZE

Optimize through collaboration

EXTEND

Extend therange of services

Add value for library users

is also about creating communities around information from which new knowledge will emerge

Collaboration

Cloud Computing is Green

both hardware and Library staff get used more efficiently

AnalysisResource Usage by Fund Overlap in New Purchases Request

Time toFulfillment

Digital Submissions by Department ILL Requests Converted to Purchases

Purchase

Digitize

Loan

What arethe concerns?

Configurable?

Extensive configurability is essential so librarianship can show end-users identifiable value.

OSS extensions ensure that which is common can do that which is uncommon.

Branding

Is stamping the library name on the delivered information AND the value of librarianship on the end-users mind.

Support is better because your vendor does the common and your staff does the unique

We needto work

together..

while being realistic in our expectations.

ill-informed legislation (about cloud computing in libraries) will result in ill-informed citizens.

Cloud Computing unites libraries so researchers start higher and go farther

Carl Grant Chief Librarian, Ex Libris

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