DIGITAL LEAP: 15% WORK DONE

More than 15% of the collections have been digitised since 2008. The SGPC had first assigned the project to a private agency, which did not work properly, and later restarted it on its own in 2013. Besides appointing technical experts, it set up a studio in the library that has two cameras, a scanner, four lights, and other equipment. The process is on for six days a week, 10am to 5pm, and turns six books into PDF format every day. Of 4,000-odd documents that have been digitised, 700 are general manuscripts and 290 are birs of Guru Granth Sahib. Also, as the paper of manuscript is affected by insects and moisture, the library has a treatment plant equipped with a fumigation chamber to preserve these. Guru Nanak Dev University has also installed such chamber.