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Nowadays, massive costs of academic libraries spent on providing information resources and services. Predominantly, although university officials should not refrain from any material or spiritual investment, such as their moral support of library development plans, in enthusiastically promoting the services of academic libraries, this unfortunate investment must have a tangible and objective reflection. This is when electronic tools access to end-user information are available and academic libraries need to be able to prove their resources and services have made a significant contribution to patrons’ education and research (Abbas et al., 2018).
On the other hand, with the advent of modern technologies in all walks of life, especially social areas, the libraries and information centers function with the advent of technologies such as wireless networks, laptops, tablets and smartphones. Access to scientific information sources has changed and requires the use of electronic and digital forms alongside their traditional form. In the meantime, modern libraries and information centers need to instantly update their needed services as these innovative technologies typically arrive. In addition to traditional services, these centers have to offer internet, electronic and digital services. Using digital resources, university libraries have been able to encounter the users’ information needs in addition to updating their facilities with the technology world, but these centers can benefit from cloud computing could strive to provide better, more up-to-date services and beyond the constraints of the past to meet the more demanding information needs alongside traditional low-cost services. These libraries need to be instantly turned into a cloud and digitized libraries or transformed into digital libraries and used as a shared use facility and approach (Abbas et al., 2018; Abbasi and Zoya, 2013).
With the rapid development of cloud computing, cloud storage and other related technologies, digital libraries have increasingly enabled users to remotely access a wide range of distributed information resources regardless of physical storage conditions (Atuase, 2019); e-learning using cloud computing services also enhances students’ learning opportunities through appropriate web technology by accessing a variety of digital information resources anytime and anywhere (Thamaraiselvi, 2016). Apart from the use of cloud computing in academic libraries, this technology has been used to inform researchers, cloud computing enthusiasts, academics and librarians of academic digital libraries about the state...