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title: "When Punjab Digital Library launched?"  
description: "When Punjab Digital Library launched?"  
author: "Gurmeet Kaur"  
published: 2018-06-17  
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# When Punjab Digital Library launched?

When Punjab Digital Library launched?\
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## Answers

### Answer by Stuti Gupta

> **In August 2009, the Punjab Digital Library became live on the internet.**

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Since 2003, the [Panjab Digital Library](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panjab_Digital_Library) has been a **non-profit organization** dedicated to **digitizing and conserving** Panjab's unique culture. It is the **largest digital resource** in Panjab, with over 38 million digitized pages. Many important historical papers have been **digitized and publicly** available on the web. Its subject matter includes [Sikh](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/45280/who-is-the-8th-sikh-guru) and [Punjabi](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/45342/which-punjabi-writer-wrote-chitta-lahu) culture. In August 2009, The Nanakshahi Trust financed an online library that was established. Its headquarters are in Chandigarh, India. The library aims to **find, digitize, conserve, collect, and make available** the Panjab region's collected learning, regardless of writing, dialect, faith, [region](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/94153/which-space-technology-incubation-centre-is-serving-the-east-region), or other health appearance. \
The Panjab Digital Library is interested in digitizing anything in the Panjab area. It's also eager in digitizing everything related to the Panjab area or written in Gurmukhi script that's lying across the world. PDL is a repository that is being offered as a [library](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/93878/what-is-the-use-of-flexbox-how-it-will-be-used-with-the-help-of-bootstrap-library). It digitizes local literature with the same zeal that it digitizes government archives for eternity.


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