Nehru Memorial Museum and Library launches project to digitize research material

Nehru Memorial Museum and Library has launched an ambitious project to digitize the research material in its possession. Under this project, the goal is to ensure the conversion of the entire India House Collection of the Library. Culture Ministry said, this consists of 40 thousand books, reports, periodicals, 55 lakh pages of archival documents, and microfilms in digital form.

AIR correspondent reports that in order to make all the digitized materials accessible from any part of the world, government has decided to put them on Internet through a state-of-the-art digital platform and, Open Digital Library and Archives. This will allow researchers on modern and contemporary India to search for documents relevant for their research. Users can read them on computer and download the documents by paying service charges.