Climbing out of the box and into the cloud: Building web-scale for libraries

Journal of Library Administration

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-17

  Jordan, Jay ^a  

^a OCLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Application programming interfaces; Budgets; Cloud computing; Ils functionality; Network effects; Search engines; System design; Web scale; Worldcat

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651350105     PISSN: 01930826     EISSN: 15403564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01930826.2011.531637     Document Type: Article

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