The Role Of Cloud Computing In Sharing Of Information Resources Among Digital Libraries In New Digital Era

The evolution of traditional library collections to digital or virtual collections has given new dimension. The Internet, Web environment and associated sophisticated tools have given a new dynamic role to play and serve the new information based society in better ways than previously. Because of the powerful features of Web i.e. distributed, heterogeneous, collaborative, multimedia, multi-protocol, hypermedia-oriented architecture, World Wide Web has revolutionized the way people access information, and has opened up new possibilities in areas such as digital libraries, virtual libraries, scientific information retrieval and dissemination. For above list there is a new addition called “cloud computing”, it is a new technology which uses Internet and central remote servers to keep up data and applications. The article gives an overview of limitless scope of cloud computing using internet and web, the role of cloud computing in sharing of information resources through internet and web environment especially as intermediary, facilitator, knowledge manager and shifter of information resources is also described.