Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya (MPP) has unique collection of monographs and periodicals which describes different aspects of Nepalese society, culture, history and Nepali literature of different periods. The library collection is rich in rare materials, which are very vulnerable for circulation. The library is providing these materials for scholars and researchers at the same time it identifies the need of preservation of these rare materials. For the preservation purpose, MPP has been continuously microfilming and digitizing rare and endangered materials with its own resource and sometimes with supports from other agencies. So far, the library has produced 600 reels of microfilms covering around 380 titles of periodicals and 142 titles of monographs

EAP066 started from July 2006 and was completed within a year with support from Endangered Archives Programme, British Library. MPP preserved 56 titles of periodicals and 142 titles of monographs (a total of 133,781 exposures) though microfilming and digitization under this project.

The duplication and digitization were carried at Roja Muthiah Research Library (RMRL) after all the initial filming was carried out at MPP during the project.

MPP microfilmed 56 titles of the periodicals in the year 2006-2007. The microfilmed titles selected are all historically important. Most of the titles selected are very rare and exist in MPP only. Some of the filmed titles include Rājbhakti, Ādhār śikṣhā, Bhūgol pārk, early issues (and first issue) of Gorkhapatra, Upanyasa taranagiṇī etc, which are rare. This project has not only included the periodicals published from Kathmandu valley but has also included the periodicals published outside the valley like Siddartha from Jhapa, Lumbini from Butwal, Varta from Dhangadhi and so on. Similarly, there are titles which are published from outside Nepal like Sathi from Darjeeling, Svatantra Nepālī from Deheradun, India; Parvate from Singapore.

EAP066 achieved microfilming of 119,197 total exposures in periodicals. The microfilms produced at MPP follows the international standard. The microfilms contain sequence of targets and passed through standard quality control practices.

MPP microfilmed 142 titles of monographs. The microfilmed titles selected are unique. These are single copy title. The titles mostly include rare collection of Nepali literature. Apart from literature, it also includes books of military science, biological science, medical science, law, biography and various other topics.

The total exposure of monographs microfilmed is 14,584.

During one year of EAP066, the quality of microfilming in MPP has greatly improved and the standards of microfilms have been greatly enhanced. Some of the advancement in microfilming can be summarized as follows:

• MPP has standardized the initial targets to be supplied during the filming. These improvised targets include initial targets, bibliographic and eye-legible targets.
• The proper spacing between the titles has been maintained in microfilm which is the international practice followed in most of the archiving institutions.
• MPP now has well equipped department for quality control (Q.C.) for microfilms. Each microfilm passes through strict steps of quality control before approval.

Now MPP is able to duplicate copies of microfilm negatives and producing positives as well from this year with the recent addition of a duplicator.