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