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Providing Library Services in the Cloud: New Benefits Realized, New Skills Required

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Robin R. Hartman

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

theological librarianship

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1937-8904

DOI - 10.31046/tl.v7i2.348

Subject(s) - open access journal , publishing , library science , intersection (aeronautics) , cloud computing , medical journal , sociology , world wide web , computer science , political science , medline , engineering , scopus , law , operating system , aerospace engineering

In December 2010, Hope International University in Fullerton, California, signed up as an early adopter with OCLC’s WorldShare Management Services (WMS.) Not yet a buzz word in library circles, “the cloud” was just making its way to my attention as I was thinking about whether to try to repair or purchase a new ILS server. The concept of having a server hosted off-site was not new — I had considered that option with Voyager many years before. But now OCLC was offering to take away the burden of ownership, and by mid-June 2011 we were live and “in the cloud” with WMS.

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