A. Kumar M.A., M.L.I.Sc., M.Phil., (Ph.D) Senior Executive Resource centre in Great Lakes Institute of Management.

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1 An analytical study: The recent trend using the Cloud Computing Libraries with relationship between Science and Engineering Faculty Members in Chennai City. Abstract A. Kumar M.A., M.L.I.Sc., M.Phil., (Ph.D) Senior Executive Resource centre in Great Lakes Institute of Management The researcher aim and objectives the recent development of cloud computing technology knowledge resources in field library and information science, retrieval, updating and obtaining known or unknown the faculty members. The measurement and assessment of to use the statistical tools, the help of the SPSS package, Likert five point scale. Such as the minimum cost, accessible anytime anywhere and as well as the flexibility and elasticity. The end results and findings the researcher infer that the faculty members 152 (43.40) percent of Very Satisfied, 137 (39.10) percent. Keywords: Cloud computing, (SaaS), (PaaS), (IaaS), cloud library Introduction The recent scenario unavoidable the cloud computing network system. At present level the world running the revolutionary computer networks systems and one important the cloud computing is a completely new technology adopted in all area to cover in the society. As a human well-being awareness very rapid changes in the knowledge society for example, the smartphone, tablet phone, laptop etc. That have using a via network systems, for enabling convenient, on demand for network and sharing or transferring of knowledge for information such as services, storages of information, application of information etc. even though the massive advantage of the users. Cloud computing is a shared resource system that can offer a variety of online services such as virtual server storage, and applications and licensing for desktop applications. By leveraging common resources, cloud computing is able to achieve expansion and provide volume 1. However, even though the fact that cloud computing offers huge opportunity to the information International Journal of Next Generation Library and Technologies (ISSN ) Page 1

2 technology industry in the country, currently the development of cloud computing technology at its beginning. The aim and objectives of this paper discussed is to make available a better improved understanding of the design challenges of cloud computing, moreover aware of cloud computing technology in the faculty members. Characteristics of Cloud Computing That cloud computing is one of the distributed systems that represents a sophisticated model. NIST has identified important aspects of the cloud. On-demand self-service: Cloud services provide computer resources such as storage and processing as needed and without any human intervention. Broad network access: cloud computing resources are accessible over the network, mobile and smart devices even sensors can access computing resources on the cloud. Resource Pooling: Cloud platform users share a vast array of computing resources; users can determine the nature of resources and the geographic location they prefer but cannot determine the exact physical location of these resources. Rapid Elasticity : Resources from storage media, network, processing units and applications are always available and can be increased or decreased in an almost instantaneous fashion, allowing for high scalability to ensure optimal use of resources. Measured service: Cloud systems can measure the processes and consumption of resources as well as surveillance, control and reporting in a completely transparent manner. Purpose and Scope Cloud computing is an evolving paradigm. The NIST definition characterizes important aspects of cloud computing and is intended to serve as a means for broad comparisons of cloud services and deployment strategies, and to provide a baseline for discussion from what is cloud computing to how to best use cloud computing. International Journal of Next Generation Library and Technologies (ISSN ) Page 2

3 Service Models: Software as a Service (SaaS). The capability provided to the consumer is to use the provider s applications running on a cloud infrastructure. Such as a web browser (e.g., web-based ), or a program interface. Platform as a Service (PaaS). The capability provided to the consumer is to deploy onto the cloud infrastructure consumer-created or acquired applications created using programming. Typically this is done on a pay-per-use or charge-per-use basis. A cloud infrastructure is the collection of hardware and software that enables the five essential characteristics of cloud computing. The physical layer consists of the hardware resources that are necessary to support the cloud services being provided. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). The capability provided to the consumer is to provision processing, storage, networks, and other fundamental computing resources where the consumer is able to deploy and run arbitrary software, which can include operating systems and applications. Possibly limited control of select networking components (e.g., host firewalls). Deployment Models Private cloud: The cloud infrastructure is provisioned for exclusive use by a single organization comprising multiple consumers (e.g., business units). Community cloud: The cloud infrastructure is provisioned for exclusive use by a specific community of consumers from organizations that have shared concerns (e.g., mission, security requirements, policy, and compliance considerations). Public cloud: The cloud infrastructure is provisioned for open use by the general public. It may be owned, managed, and operated by a business, academic, or government organization, or some combination of them. Hybrid cloud: The cloud infrastructure is a composition of two or more distinct cloud infrastructures (private, community, or public) that remain unique entities, but are bound together by standardized or International Journal of Next Generation Library and Technologies (ISSN ) Page 3

4 proprietary technology that enables data and application portability (e.g., cloud bursting for load balancing between clouds). Cloud computing working flow The back end is the "cloud" section of the system. On the back end there are various computers, servers and data storage systems that create the "cloud" of computing services. A central server administers the system, monitoring traffic and client demands to ensure everything runs smoothly. Nandkishor Gosavi, Seetal S. Shinde, and Bhagyashree Dhakulkar (2012). Review of literature Qi Zhang, Lu Cheng, Raouf Boutaba (2010), our work will provide a better understanding of the design challenges of cloud computing, and pave the way for further research in this area. Kaushik, A. & Kumar, A. (2013), the author describes that the libraries are heart-rending towards CCT in present time and taking advantages of CBS especially in building digital libraries, social networking system (SNS) and information communication Technology (ICT). Raghunadha Reddy.T (2012), digital libraries may soon cooperate in the building and management of data centers. The necessary the digital libraries express interest, the company such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft or another cloud vendor might create a digital library Cloud similar to Google s, Government Cloud. Raghunadha Reddy. T (2012), libraries have been adopting cloud-based solutions for different services including electronic journal access management, statistics tracking, digital library hosting, and even integrated library system (ILS) hosting. This hybrid model would let digital libraries maintain more control over the applications and data stores that contain sensitive, private information about patrons. Moreover, digital libraries can continually adjust and fine-tune the balance between the tight control of a private Information Technology infrastructure, and the flexibility and savings of cloud-hosted infrastructure. International Journal of Next Generation Library and Technologies (ISSN ) Page 4

5 Assistances of Cloud computing in resource centres or academic library User centric Flexibility and innovation Availability anytime anywhere Create and collaborate Cost saving Openness Transparency Interoperability Representation Connect and Converse Cloud Academic libraries: An example World cat OCLC Library of Congress (LC) Discovery Service Google Docs / Google Scholar Scribd Google Docs Exlibris Polaris Encore Objectives of study To Purpose of visiting Library and Information Centers To analysis of often visit your library To analysis of time spent in literature search, retrieval of references, locating documents, motive interpersonal communication etc. To awareness of different online databases International Journal of Next Generation Library and Technologies (ISSN ) Page 5

6 To satisfaction with existing IT infrastructure To usage of search engines To user satisfaction Research Methodology Since the research study a primarily aims to search the relative performance of selected the cloud computing awareness from the faculty members to search and usage the web content. To select the various colleges in Chennai city and collect from the data out of 350/400*100= 87.5 the rate of responses, the four categories the assistant professors-120, associate professors-106, professors-70 and visiting faculty-54. The research paper should use the simple percent, descriptive analysis and chi-square test applied. Table 1: Designation Designation Frequency Percent Assistant Professors Associate professors Professors Visiting Faculty Total International Journal of Next Generation Library and Technologies (ISSN ) Page 6

7 In this table indicates that cadre wise of faculty members the 120 (34.3) assistant professors, 106 (30.3) Associate professors, 70 (20) Professors and remaining 54 (15.4) visiting faculty. Figure 1: Designation Table 2: Gender and Qualification Gender Frequency Percent Male Female Qualification Frequency Percent Master of Engineering Master of Philosophy Doctor of Philosophy Table shows that the Gender and qualification 192 (54.9) Male and 158 (45.1) female, the faculty members in the qualification of indicates that 76 (21.7) Master of Engineering 76 (21.7), Master of International Journal of Next Generation Library and Technologies (ISSN ) Page 7

8 philosophy 101 (28.9) and finally 173 (49.4) Doctor of Philosophy. The majority of the higher of qualification Doctor of philosophy. Figure 2: Qualification Table 3: purposes of visiting library or resource centres Designation Associa Purposes Assistant te Visiting Total Professor Professor profess Faculty or For Research % 17.90% 15.70% 13.00% 16.30% For Reference % 17.90% 12.90% 14.80% 12.60% For Books % 10.40% 11.40% 13.00% 13.40% For Journals International Journal of Next Generation Library and Technologies (ISSN ) Page 8

9 17.50% 7.50% 10.00% 22.20% 13.70% For Information Bulletins (Brochures) For Study For Borrowing Books Total Pearson Chi-Square % 10.40% 30.00% 20.40% 15.70% % 17.90% 8.60% 11.10% 14.30% % 17.90% 11.40% 5.60% 14.00% % % % % % Value df Asymp. Sig. (2-sided) a cells (0.0%) have expected count less than 5. The minimum expected count is Revealed that the table 3 purpose of vising the library for Research 57 (16.30), for reference 44(12.60), for books 47 (13.40), for journals 48 (13.70), For Information Bulletins (Brochures) 55 (15.70), for study 50 (14.30) and for borrowing books 49 (14.00). Pearson Chi-Square test used since P value is less than 0.05, the null hypothesis is rejected at 5 percent of level of significance, hence the decided that there no association between purposes of visiting library or resource centres and faculty members. (P= df =18 and Significance=0.003) International Journal of Next Generation Library and Technologies (ISSN ) Page 9

10 Figure 3: purpose of visiting library or resource centres Table 4: purposes of visiting library or resource centres Vs Gender Purposes Gender Male Female Total For Research % 15.80% 16.30% For Reference % 15.20% 12.60% For Books % 10.80% 13.40% For Journals % 14.60% 13.70% For Information Bulletins (Brochures) % 15.20% 15.70% For Study International Journal of Next Generation Library and Technologies (ISSN ) Page 10

11 12.00% 17.10% 14.30% For Borrowing Books Total % 11.40% 14.00% % % % From the table 4 it can be inferred that purposes of visiting library or resource centres Vs Gender. Which is constitutes of majority of the male for the research 32 (16.7), remaining the female for study 27 (17.1) percent respectively. Figure 4: purpose of visiting library vs gender Table 5: Frequently Visit the library Visit the library Every Day Designation Assistant Associate Visiting Total Professor Professor professor Faculty % 29.20% 28.60% 16.70% 28.00% International Journal of Next Generation Library and Technologies (ISSN ) Page 11

12 Once in a week More than once in a week Fortnight Once in a month Occasionally Total Pearson Chi-Square % 40.60% 17.10% 18.50% 27.40% % 15.10% 25.70% 22.20% 17.40% % 1.90% 10.00% 5.60% 7.10% % 2.80% 5.70% 22.20% 8.00% % 10.40% 12.90% 14.80% 12.00% % % % % % Value df Asymp. Sig. (2-sided) a 15 0 Overall the research study infers that the 98 (28.00) percent of everyday, ) percent of once in a week, 61(17.40) percent of more than once in a week, 25 (7.10) percent of fortnight, 28 (8.00) percent of once in a month and remaining 4(12.00) percent of occasionally. Pearson Chi-Square test used since P value is less than 0.05, the null hypothesis is rejected at 5 percent of level of significance, hence the concluded that there no association between Visit the library and faculty members. (P= df =15 and Significance=0.000) International Journal of Next Generation Library and Technologies (ISSN ) Page 12

13 Figure 5: Frequently Visit the library Table 6: Time spent in literature search, retrieval of references, locating documents, motive interpersonal communication etc * Designation Designation Time spent Assistant Associate Visiting Total Professor Professor professor Faculty More than 10 hours per week 36.7% 45.3% 24.3% 20.4% 34.3% 5 10 hours per week % 17.9% 34.3% 31.5% 29.1% Less than 5 hours per week 28.3% 36.8% 41.4% 48.1% 36.6% Total % 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% Pearson Chi-Square Value df Asymp. Sig. (2-sided) International Journal of Next Generation Library and Technologies (ISSN ) Page 13

14 a Table 6 shows that the time spent in literature search, retrieval of references, locating documents, motive interpersonal communication, and the results 120(34.3) percent of more than 10hours per week, 102 (29.1) percent of 5-10 hours per week, and remaining 129 (36.6) less than 5 hours per week. Table 7: Awareness of Databases UGC Infonet Frequency Percent Aware Not Aware Springer Link Frequency Percent Aware Not Aware Science Direct Frequency Percent Aware Not Aware Emerald Frequency Percent Aware Not Aware Nature Frequency Percent Aware Not Aware Web of science Frequency Percent International Journal of Next Generation Library and Technologies (ISSN ) Page 14

15 Aware Not Aware Wikipedia Frequency Percent Aware Not Aware INFLIBNET Frequency Percent Aware Not Aware UNIVERSE Frequency Percent Aware Not Aware ENGINEERING Frequency Percent Aware Not Aware ERIC Frequency Percent Aware Not Aware NICNET Frequency Percent Aware Not Aware DELNET Frequency Percent International Journal of Next Generation Library and Technologies (ISSN ) Page 15

16 Aware Not Aware NPTEL Frequency Percent Aware Not Aware ELSVIER Frequency Percent Aware Not Aware PROQUEST Frequency Percent Aware Not Aware EBSCO Frequency Percent Aware Not Aware Table 7 indicates that the faculty members known or awareness of related online databases, the purpose of research study based on information retrieve (IR) the online sources. Hence the faculty members it has been awareness of the following online databases. UGC Info Net 205(58.6), Springer Link 247 (70.6), Science Direct 253 (72.3), Emerald, 249 9(71.1), Web of science 246 (70.3), Wikipedia 243 (69.4), INFLIBNET 251 (71.7), UNIVERSE 245 (70.0), UNIVERSE 142(40.6), ERIC 216(61.7) NICNET 230(65.7), DELNET 222 (63.4), NPTEL 249 (71.1), ELSVIER 181 (51.7), PROQUEST 249 (71.1), EBSCO 181 (51.7). International Journal of Next Generation Library and Technologies (ISSN ) Page 16

17 Table 8: ANOVA Tools for finding & Obtaining Library Materials-Main catalog Articles & Database List E-Journal list Research guides & findings aids Federated Search Web scale discovery services Sum of Mean df Squares Square F Sig. Between Groups Within Groups Total Between Groups Within Groups Total Between Groups Within Groups Total Between Groups Within Groups Total Between Groups Within Groups Total Between Groups Within Groups Total International Journal of Next Generation Library and Technologies (ISSN ) Page 17

18 Google or Google scholar to access library subscriptions Tools for finding & Obtaining Library Materials-Main catalog Between Groups Within Groups Total Between Groups Within Groups Total From the above table 8 results the researcher has been abridged as per the hypothesis framed for the research study has been identified. The significance of the eight parameters of the study to evaluate at 1 per cent and 5% level and the respondent opinion on impact of library document retrieved the faculty members has been identified for the research. The result is that there is significant difference between the average levels of opinion of impact of impact of library document retrieved except the responsiveness to Articles & Database List, Google or Google scholar to access library subscriptions and Tools for finding & Obtaining Library Materials-Main catalogue. All the hypotheses of the above ANOVA table are rejected. Hence most of the faculty members are significantly not differed in their opinions on awareness to impact of library document retrieved factor. Table 9: User Satisfaction library services User Satisfaction library services Very Dissatisfied Dissatisfied Undecided Designation Assistant Associate Visiting Total Professor Professor professor Faculty % 6.60% 4.30% 9.30% 5.70% % 7.50% 5.70% 3.70% 5.40% International Journal of Next Generation Library and Technologies (ISSN ) Page 18

19 13.30% 0.90% 5.70% 1.90% 6.30% Satisfied Very Satisfied Total Pearson Chi-Square % 49.10% 41.40% 40.70% 39.10% % 35.80% 42.90% 44.40% 43.40% % % % % % Value df Asymp. Sig. (2-sided) a From this table 9 describes that the Likert five point scale Very Satisfied, Satisfied, Undecided, Dissatisfied and Very Dissatisfied, the faculty members state that the satisfied of library services. The researcher infer that the faculty members 152 (43.40) percent of Very Satisfied, 137 (39.10) percent Satisfied, 22(6.30) percent of Undecided, 19 (5.40) percent of dissatisfied and remaining 20(5.70) percent of Very dissatisfied. The Chi-square test has been employed to test the relationship between the personal characteristics, particularly user Satisfaction library services; these propositions hold good in the same would have to test through statistical analysis. Hence the chi-square test was applied for the purpose of examining the significance of relationship between levels of user satisfaction library services towards impact of library user. Null hypothesis H 0, there is no association between results reveals that the calculated value of user satisfaction library services chi-square value is significant at 0.01 levels of its 16 degree of freedoms. So stated that hypothesis is rejected the table value a (Critical value 5 percent =28.629). df =12) International Journal of Next Generation Library and Technologies (ISSN ) Page 19

20 Table 10: Search engine Vs Designation Search engines Google Yahoo Bing Altavista ASk.com Blogs Total Pearson Chi-Square Designation Assistant Associate Visiting Total Professor Professor professor Faculty % 24.50% 28.60% 33.30% 31.40% % 23.60% 20.00% 14.80% 19.70% % 13.20% 8.60% 25.90% 15.40% % 16.00% 14.30% 14.80% 14.60% % 7.50% 22.90% 5.60% 10.00% % 15.10% 5.70% 5.60% 8.90% % % % % % Value df Asymp. Sig. (2-sided) a The present digital era in the communication technology world to assist human being, the investigator measured the study some search engine has been used the faculty members. Google.com 110 (31.4) percent, 69 (19.7) percent of Yahoo.com, Bing 54 (15.4) percent, AltaVista 51 (14.6) percent, ASk.com 35 (10.0) percent, and remaining Blogs 31(8.9) percent of respectively. International Journal of Next Generation Library and Technologies (ISSN ) Page 20

21 Pearson Chi-Square test used since P value is less than 0.05, the null hypothesis is rejected at 5 percent of level of significance, hence the concluded that there no association between search engine and faculty members. (P= df =15 and Significance=0.000) Major Findings The faculty members the 120 (34.3) assistant professors, 106 (30.3) Associate professors, 70 (20) Professors and remaining the 54 (15.4) visiting faculty. Gender and qualification 192 (54.9) Male and 158 (45.1) female, the faculty members in the qualification of indicates that 76 (21.7) Master of Engineering 76 (21.7), Master of philosophy 101 (28.9) and finally 173 (49.4) Doctor of Philosophy. The majority of the higher of qualification Doctor of philosophy. Revealed that the table 3 purpose of visiting the library for Research 57 (16.30), for reference 44(12.60), for books 47 (13.40), for journals 48 (13.70), For Information Bulletins (Brochures) 55 (15.70), for study 50 (14.30) and for borrowing books 49 (14.00). It can be inferred that purposes of visiting library or resource centres Vs Gender. Which is constitutes of majority of the male for the research 32 (16.7), remaining the female for study 27 (17.1) percent respectively. Overall the research study infers that the 98 (28.00) percent of everyday, ) percent of once in a week, 61(17.40) percent of more than once in a week, 25 (7.10) percent of fortnight, 28 (8.00) percent of once in a month and remaining 4(12.00) percent of occasionally. Time spent in literature search, retrieval of references, locating documents, motive interpersonal communication, and the results 120(34.3) percent of more than 10hours per week, 102 (29.1) percent of 5-10 hours per week, and remaining 129 (36.6) less than 5 hours per week. International Journal of Next Generation Library and Technologies (ISSN ) Page 21

22 Indicates that the faculty members known or awareness of related online databases, the purpose of research study based on information retrieval (IR) the online sources. Hence the faculty members it has been awareness of the following online databases. UGC Infonet 205(58.6), Springerlink 247 (70.6), Sciencedirect 253 (72.3), Emerald, 249 9(71.1), Web of science 246 (70.3), Wikipedia 243 (69.4), INFLIBNET 251 (71.7), UNIVERSE 245 (70.0), UNIVERSE 142(40.6), ERIC 216(61.7) NICNET 230(65.7), DELNET 222 (63.4), NPTEL 249 (71.1), ELSEVIER 181 (51.7), PROQUEST 249 (71.1), EBSCO 181 (51.7). All the hypotheses of the above ANOVA table are rejected. Hence most of the faculty members are significantly not differed in their opinions on awareness to impact of library document retrieved factor. The researcher infer that the faculty members 152 (43.40) percent of Very Satisfied, 137 (39.10) percent Satisfied, 22(6.30) percent of Undecided, 19 (5.40) percent of dissatisfied and remaining 20(5.70) percent of Very dissatisfied. The present digital era in the communication technology world to assist human being, the researcher measured the study some search engine has been used the faculty members. Google.com 110 (31.4) percent, 69 (19.7) percent of Yahoo.com, Bing 54 (15.4) percent, AltaVista 51 (14.6) percent, ASk.com 35 (10.0) percent, and remaining Blogs 31(8.9) percent of respectively. Conclusion Libraries heart of any academic are moving towards the technology of cloud computing the contemporaneous of providing cloud computing services exclusively in digital and virtual libraries and more over the social network the sharing of knowledge communication. Hence the library services by way of cloud based technologies to arrange of require information to the end of user the purpose of the user save the time, reduced cost and reliability. International Journal of Next Generation Library and Technologies (ISSN ) Page 22

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