Cloud technologies play an important role in increasing the efficiency of e-libraries

Institute of Information Technology of ANAS held a seminar on "application of cloud technologies in e-Library". Technical Director of the Institute, Dr. Rashid Alakbarov opened the event and spoke about the advantages and the application of cloud technologies to increase the efficiency of e-libraries.

Senior research fellow of the institute Oktay Alakbarov presented the report on the topic and spoke about local and remote distributed information resources for the general use by the digital libraries. e-Libraries provide more comprehensive information services to the readers remotely from any locations around the world, he added.

Recently, a large number of documents and data have been digitalized and stored on clouds, he said and noted that these technologies enable the use of remote resources through comfortable interface.

Mr. Alakbarov provided information on cloud technology models, and the use of private, collective and hybrid clouds. The technology offers infrastructure, platform and software services.  Integrated library systems of different types of architecture mainly apply software library services, he stressed.

Participants exchanged views on the report, numerous questions were answered.

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