Session 3- Moving the Library to the Clouds

This session was completely over my head. It was heavy on the IT terminology. The speakers Roy Tennant and Andrew Pace are Networking Program Directors for OCLC Research and Programs.

Here is my definition of Cloud Computing:)

From Computers in Libraries 2009 Conference

From what I could decipher the session was about "Cloud Computing". Here are some of the notes from that session:

Internet is a cloud-capability that is accessible and usable.

Cloud computing- style of computing which dynamically scalable and often virtual resources are provided over the internet.

- Infrastructure as a service
- Platform as a service
- Software as a service

Moving libraries to the clouds-means to move library applications, databases and all things to a network level.

Pay as you go, no need to have a local server.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud-Pay for what you use

Cloud computing allows you to run off of your own network.

Cataloging
Allowing wiki-like editing in WorldCat records.

WorldCat Facebook Citations

Libraries Worldwide 1.2 million libraries worldwide
166 billion transactions per year

5,000 transactions per second

In laments terms I think this is a private, low cost way of networking library resources that can be easily manipulated and controlled by the library staff. I admit I was completely lost on this session. Lots of information thought.

We are on a coffee break, will post after that.