Collaborating in the Clouds

Collaborating in the Clouds: Selecting Tools Tom Ipri University of Nevada Las Vegas http://www.slideshare.net/tombrarian

Who Needs Libraries When Everything is on the Web? National Center for Education Statistics Year Circulation Reference 1996 231,500,000 1,900,000 1998 216,100,000 2,100,000 2000 194,000,000 1,600,000 2002 189,248,000 1,508,000 2004 200,204,000 1,423,000 2006 187,236,000 1,101,000 %Change -19% -42%

Who Needs Libraries When Everything is on the Web? National Center for Education Statistics Year Circulation Reference Gate Count 1996 231,500,000 1,900,000 16,500,000 1998 216,100,000 2,100,000 16,200,000 2000 194,000,000 1,600,000 16,500,000 2002 189,248,000 1,508,000 16,927,000 2004 200,204,000 1,423,000 19,369,000 2006 187,236,000 1,101,000 18,765,712 %Change -19% -42% +14%

Library As Place
Moveable furniture
Wireless infrastructure
Laptop support
Group workstations
Group study rooms
Multimedia production and editing
Rich application suite

Library As Place
Laptop loans
Large scale printers
White boards
Smart boards
Tutoring services
Writing services
Vending machines
Practice presentation room

Impact on Academia 1,2
Sharing from everywhere
Supercomputing becomes mainstream for research

Impact on Academia 1,2
Reshaping IT Department
Virtual Computing Labs
Low capital costs
Scale on demand
Resource and talent sharing

The Catches
Trust and confidence that the service provider will continue to be there 3
Privacy 1 and security 2
Internet connection
Policy and control issues 2
Inability to tailor licensing agreements
Liability 4

Examples
Science Clouds
Earthbrowser

Examples
Evernote
Zotero
Dropbox

Create Your Own Cloud
Google App Engine
Heroku
Joyent
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Who Needs Libraries When Everything is in the Cloud? “ [Library] Buildings will move more fully into their current dual nature, that of warehouse and gathering place, while our services and our content will live in the cloud, away from any physical place.” 5

Sources
3 Ways Web-Based Computing Will Change Colleges
Demystifying Cloud Computing for Higher Education
2009 Horizon Report
Cloud Computing’s Top Issues for Higher Education
Stranger Than We Know

Photo Sources
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jiscinfonet/447054738/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomspix/2900984036/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/berkeleylab/4025866671/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nifmus/2385966735/

Collaborating in the Clouds

by Tom Ipri on Oct 26, 2009

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