An effort in a positive direction brings laurels from the likeminded and satisfaction from inside. But one always gets immense pleasure when the effort and its results take one to the next level. With the last month of the year 2013 passing by, Panjab Digital Library (PDL) is about to achieve the mark of 9 million digitized pages while a figure more than ten times of that is in pipeline waiting to be preserved digitally. With the kind blessings bestowed upon by the Almighty and with the generous support from the likes of you, the graph of this journey has persistently remained incremental.

The journey has though not been a bed of roses and PDL has faced its share of thorns at each step. Collections after collections, projects followed by projects have not quenched the thirst of PDL.Nevertheless the longing to preserve much more data at much faster pace has rather become stronger.However substantial it may look and however immense it may mean, what PDL has achieved in last decade is a small portion of what is still to be done.

PDL has just begun the work on an ambitious project of digitizing one of the most important collections speaking of the history and heritage of the Guru Period, Mughal period and contemporary Indian society. It will protect a lot of data from the clutches of vulnerability to decay of one kind or another to the preservation in the format and world of timelessness.

PDL enters the new calendar year with a hope of getting support from each one of YOU so that the work of digitization could catch momentum that is necessary to defeat the clutches of time that is always running fast to devastate the heritage of our forefathers.