"Cloud Library" successfully launched

Since last November, the Library of Inner Mongolia Medical University and IBM have reached a cooperation to build a "cloud library." Based on the IBM-PMC cloud management platform and services, the Library of Inner Mongolia Medical University has abandoned the traditional “chimney” system construction method and achieved:

IT resource pooling and resource sharing: colleges and universities can meet the needs of massive applications without too many physical servers, ensuring application extension requirements in the next 5-10 years, achieving green, environmental, and energy-saving development; intelligent management: through the IBM-PMC cloud The management platform's visualized graphical interface operation and customized management system enable Inner Mongolia Medical University to realize the information, networking, digitization, and intelligent management methods of contemporary world university libraries, fully embodying today's leisure, self-help, and full openness. Barrier-free contemporary library library concept; simple, easy-to-operate backend: Cloud-based library based on IBM-PMC cloud management platform has a simple and easy-to-operate system, which makes the backstage management of the library flexible and convenient, and improves the library. Work efficiency also saves a lot of infrastructure funds.

Gao Yan, a chief researcher and project leader of the “Digital Library” project at Inner Mongolia Medical University, said: “The increasing resources and application needs of university libraries have brought new challenges to the development of library IT. The increase in hardware utilization is relatively low, resulting in a waste of resources; and the development of Internet technology has made us realize that the school library needs to be informatized, digitized, and intelligent to meet the needs of digital resource sharing, efficient management, and flexible expansion of the library.”

After the “Cloud Library” of Inner Mongolia Medical University was established, the system portal opened up the library's different heterogeneous database interfaces, providing unified retrieval, 24-hour seamless connectivity, and remote access and downloading anytime and anywhere for on-campus staff and students. service. In June 2015, Inner Mongolia Medical University will bring "Cloud Library" to everyone's hands to create a mobile digital library so that users can swim through the mobile device at any time.

At the same time, Inner Mongolia Medical University will also be based on the IBM-PMC cloud management platform to break industry barriers between universities, libraries, and medical institutions, and to share, build, and share knowledge with local medical information agencies so that the "cloud library" It has become a shared knowledge base for the entire medical industry in Inner Mongolia and even the national medical industry. It is expected that next year, "Cloud Library" resource services can cover the 12 district hospitals and 5 affiliated hospitals and related medical units in the region, laying the foundation for the construction of the "Medical Information Big Data Resource Protection Service Center" in Inner Mongolia.

"Internet +" continues to promote the integration of the Internet and traditional industries and promote the upgrading and transformation of traditional industries. Big data has changed the way the industry makes decisions. Cloud computing is reshaping the IT architecture. Mobile and social technologies have given new meaning to the interaction. The on-line launch of Cloud Library of Inner Mongolia Medical University has become a model for the development and technology integration of universities in Inner Mongolia, and it is of milestone significance for the innovation of China's “Internet+College Library” model. In the future, IBM will continue to work together with universities to use the big data, cloud computing, mobile, social and other innovative technologies to promote the wisdom development of universities under the “Internet +” era.