Abstract

Author(s): Dudekula Dastagiri, S. Praveen Kumar

The Evaluation or Impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in growing academic libraries have today changes the way libraries services are carried out, Cloud computing is an evolving technological paradigm that facilitates conveniently, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources like network, servers, storage, applications and services etc that can be presented as a service and released with minimal management effort. Cloud computing is a new technique of computing that is extensively used in today’s’ industry as well as society. It is a contemporary model and one of the latest computer industry buzzwords. Cloud computing brings the revolutionary changes in the world of Information Communication Technology because of its potential benefits such as reduced cost, accessible anywhere anytime as well as its elasticity and flexibility. This paper wills discoursing the cloud computing, definitions, historical background, characteristics, models and application of new generation libraries and digital or e-libraries of Academic library’s.