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Storage of Print Resources in the Cloud Beth Posner bposner@ Definition – Cloud Computing Using online web services for computing needs: Software applications Accessing computing power Platform to build applications Data storage (i.e. pictures, email, or digitized print and e-books and journals) Benefits Save money Save staff time Save physical space Have access to high quality services Challenges Format Preferences (for data storage) Trusting in outside services vs. your own library Reliability If it breaks or data is lost, you just have to wait, along with everyone else, and hope they will fix it! Preservation Privacy Another organization potentially has personal information about your library patrons Study - Storing Print Collections in the Cloud – “The Cloud Project” Malpas, Constance. 2011. Cloud-sourcing Research Collections: Managing Print in the Mass-digitized Library Environment. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Research. /research/publications/library/2011/2011-01.pdf Study - Storing Print Collections in the Cloud – “The Cloud Project” The objective of the project was to examine the feasibility of outsourcing management of low-use print books held in academic libraries to shared service providers, including large-scale print and digital repositories. This study assessed the opportunity for library space saving and cost savings through the systematic and intentional outsourcing of local management operations for digitized books to shared service providers and progressive downsizing of local print collections in favor of negotiated access to digitized material and regionally consolidated print inventory. Participants HathiTrust NYU RECAP OCLC ReCap The Research Collections and Preservation Consortium /contacts/readingroom.html Located at Princeton Universitys Forrestal Campus in Princeton, New Jersey. Jointly owned and operated by Columbia University, The New York Public Library and Princeton University. In June 2010, the ReCAP collection in