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VALA2014 Session 3 Whitehead
All on the ground: there is no cloudVALA2014 CONCURRENT SESSION 3: Cloud Gazing Derek WhiteheadSwinburne University of Technology, Vic Please tag your comments, tweets, and blog posts about this session: #vala14 and #s9 |  |
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The cloud is an information technology metaphor to inspire and frighten us all, but what does it mean? Is there a cloud at all? This presentation looks at how libraries, almost unawares, have taken to the cloud enthusiastically and ahead of the others. The paper looks at the cloud from the vantage points of an IT manager, a copyright officer and a librarian. It traces its development from opportunistic vendor-provided hosting and management of software and content, to the current cloud environment. It considers the clouds we all use. It looks at benefits and problems. And it looks ahead to a cheerfully cloudy future.
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VALA2014 Session 3 McLean
Residing in the cloud: looking at the forecast now and into the futureVALA2014 CONCURRENT SESSION 3: Cloud Gazing Michelle McLeanCasey-Cardinia Library Corporation, Vic Please tag your comments, tweets, and blog posts about this session: #vala14 and #s8 | |
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The cloud offers libraries many benefits, the best known ones being financial and IT related savings. But how much is this worth and is that all there is? If libraries move their IT into the cloud, whether by choice or necessity, it is important to know what the forecast is and to be ready for it. This paper explores the variety of cloud computing options available, summarises the main benefits and concerns of using these options, provides examples of how cloud computing is already being utilised successfully and outlines how libraries can best plan to make the move to the cloud.
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VALA2014 Session 3 Li
First experience of implementing a cloud computing SaaS applicationVALA2014 CONCURRENT SESSION 3: Cloud Gazing Zan LiMelbourne Library Service Please tag your comments, tweets, and blog posts about this session: #vala14 and #s7 | |
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This paper discusses the implementation process of the first cloud application implemented within Melbourne Library Service, Zendesk. In particular, the paper discusses the benefits and some pitfalls of SaaS software. It also outlines some of the research we have done on the trend of cloud applications. Finally, it lists some experience learned through this implementation.
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VALA2010: L-Plate Session 4 Cloud Computing
Monday 8 February, 14:30 – 15:00
More and more libraries are using services that are not hosted within a library but that are hosted in the cloud. Increasingly, software that has been traditionally loaded onto a PC is also being accessed in the cloud. This presentation provides an overview of cloud computing and explains why it is having such a profound impact on the use of computing and the internet.
Presenter: Bart Rutherford
Bart Rutherford is very well known with the Victorian library community as a throughful, and very entertaining presenter, who is able to make the most obscure and technical topics fun, interesting, and easy to understand. In 2010 Bart was also the VALA President. When he is not busy with VALA activities Bart is the Online resources Manager at Wesley College in Melbourne.
This is Bart’s second series L Plate presentations, Bart’s first L Plate presentation in 2008 introduced the now famous Slinky.
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VALA2010 Session 12 McDonald
ICT as core business: will we prosper or drown?
VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 12 – IT Management
Thursday 11 February 2010 11:05 – 11:35
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-session-12-mcdonald
Carolyn McDonald
Technology Services Librarian, Gold Coast City Council
https://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/library
Kate Davis
Online Futures Librarian, Gold Coast City Council
https://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/library
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Abstract
Recent changes in IT organisations have resulted in changes to library IT support. Concurrently, new tools and systems for service delivery, have become available, but these require a move away from the traditional ICT model. Many libraries are investigating new models, including Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing and open source software. This paper considers whether the adoption of these tools and environments by libraries has occurred as a result of a lack of suitable ICT solutions and support ICT organisations. It also considers what skills library staff need in order to ensure sustainability, supportability, and ultimately, success.
VALA2010 Session 10 Tennant
Libraries at the network level: APIs, linked data, and cloud computing
VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 10 – Looking Forward
Wednesday 10 February 2010 14:20 – 14:50
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-session-10-tennant
Roy Tennant
Senior Program Officer, OCLC, USA
http://www.oclc.org
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Large Internet hubs like Google and Amazon have long used server farms and machine-to-machine services to reach massive scale and computational flexibility. Libraries are now beginning to take advantage of these same technologies by moving services to the “cloud”, where robust and secure infrastructure services can reduce the total cost of ownership of library systems. Libraries are also leveraging the network to expose library data and services to support powerful new ways to interact with library data to provide new kinds of services. This session will tell (and show) you how.
VALA2010 Plenary 3 Breeding
Blending evolution with revolution: a new cycle of library automation spins on.
VALA 2010 PLENARY 3: Marshall Breeding
Wednesday 10 February 2010, 08:45 – 09:55
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-plenary-3-breeding
Marshall Breeding
Director for Innovative Technologies and Research, Vanderbilt University Libraries, Nashville, USA
http://staffweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/breeding and http://www.librarytechnology.org
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Based on his ongoing research and analysis of the product, technology, and business trends of the library automation industry, Marshall Breeding will give his perspective on the current state of the field and what libraries can expect over the next few years. While some companies will continue a stable and evolutionary path, others articulate more dramatic changes in their strategies. Open source ILS options have already repainted the landscape, with new community source projects underway that promise additional change. The industry drives forward on two fronts, one focusing on automating internal library processes and the other providing new ways for users to discovery and access library collections. Major tech trends such as the rapid rise in smart mobile devices, the shift from local computing to platform-as-a-service cloud computing bring new mandates of change that demand new directions of innovation. These cycles all turn within an economic climate that presents great challenges in the levels of resources that libraries can bring to the table.