The use of faculty members in the specialty of libraries and information about applications of cloud computing in education and their attitudes towards it.

The study aimed to reveal the uses of the faculty members of the library and information departments in the Egyptian universities for cloud computing in university education and their attitudes towards it, and the challenges and difficulties facing the study sample's use of cloud computing applications. The study used the descriptive approach, where an electronic questionnaire was distributed to a sample that consisted of (88) individuals. The results of the study showed that the faculty members in the specialty of libraries and information, the study sample, had positive attitudes towards the use of cloud computing applications in education. There are no significant statistically significant differences between male and female faculty members in the study sample towards the use of cloud computing applications in the educational process. The most challenges and difficulties facing the use of cloud computing applications were (technical problems), which came in the first place, followed by the second place (security concerns and information privacy), and came in the third place (protection of intellectual property rights). The most used cloud computing services e-mail service came in first place, followed by social networking services, and cloud storage service came in third place.

Keywords: cloud computing, faculty members, libraries and information, cloud storage.