Cloud Libraries-Limitations and Concerns

Digital libraries have arrived. New frontiers are being pioneered and technological superhighways being paved for a future researcher to tread on to go farther than humankind has ever gone before to create advanced knowledge-based communities. It is only possible to see how fast the horse will run its race once it has been tamed. Can the digital library be saddled with cloud computing and reined with e-books? The Industrial Revolution has brought disparity between poor and rich, widening the ozone layer gash. Advancements in nuclear technology have not necessarily resulted in worldwide peace. Identifying pitfalls and shortcomings in strategies and policies that govern developing technologies can help prevent issues and problems that can rear their heads at some later stage. This chapter continues to bring forth the issues concerning digital libraries and the challenges, current and ahead. Implications of such issues must be addressed constructively in time at several conceptual and factual levels in the context of a set of values that are ethically and scientifically acceptable by individuals from all walks of life worldwide.