Prospectives of Cloud computing in libraries of India (An overview)

As most of the people are already using cloud computing in the forms of Facebook, Flicker, Apple's iTunes, Googledocs, iPhone, YouTube, Slideshare and bookmarking sites such as Delicious, etc without even knowing about the concept. This paper tends to help librarians about the concept, so that they can improve their services and connect with rapidly changing user demands in terms of technologies. Many libraries in India are facing the problems of dwindling budgets and inadequate infrastructure to provide good services to their users. Is it possible for them to provide maximum services to their communities by investing minimum resources using cloud computing? Paper tries to find out the answer. This study could be helpful for our librarians in implementing cloud computing in their libraries.