A Study of the Concepts and Design of Library Cloud with Security Features

Abstract

The digitization of Library resources has been increasingly evolving as the Internet has taken over as the major means of communications and delivery of information. There has been an emerging proliferation of e-library services that has brought library resources to students and academicians prominent access. This paper deals with the analysis of the concepts and design of Library Cloud with security features to effectively provide library resources to academic institutions. It aims to design a Library Cloud which will be the consortium of various digital Libraries of different universities and academic institutions. It takes full advantage of the features of Cloud computing in order to optimize the provision of such library resources. The security features will be defined to provide the basis for the development of Library Cloud and its services.