Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) has launched an ambitious project to digitize its archival materials so they are accessible to people via the internet. 

Under this project, the entire India House Collection of the Library will be digitized. 

India House Collection of the Library consists of 40,000 books, reports, periodicals (containing around 70,00,000 pages), 55,00,000 pages of archival documents, and of 30,000 microfilms and 57,000 microfiches (consisting of approximately 2.5 crore images) to digital form.

The digitized materials will be put on Internet through a state-of-the-art digital platform, Open Digital Library and Archives (ODLA). This will make all the digitized materials accessible from any part of the world.

This access will benefit the researchers on modern and contemporary India in searching for documents relevant for their research, previewing them, and downloading them after paying service charges.

This will greatly facilitate academic research and dissemination of knowledge about modern and contemporary India especially that based on archival sources as well as newspapers and journals, of which NMML is the largest repository in the country. 

The ODLA is likely to be developed by Tata Consultancy Services in collaboration with NMML. It is likely to become operational in the next six months. 

Key Takeaways

• Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) has launched an ambitious project to digitize the research material in its possession. 
• The digitized materials will be put on Internet through a state-of-the-art digital platform, Open Digital Library and Archives (ODLA). 
• The ODLA is likely to be developed by Tata Consultancy Services in collaboration with NMML.
•  t is likely to become operational in the next six months.