Afghanistan Digital Library retrieves, restores and makes available the first sixty years of Afghanistan’s published cultural heritage. The project is collecting, cataloging, digitizing and making available over the Internet as many Afghan publications from the period 1871-1930 as it is possible to identify and locate. The project also trained staff at the National Archives in Kabul in conservation and digitization and engaged in the cataloging and digitization of materials held in various public and private collections inside Afghanistan. Providing universal availability to this broad historical span of Afghanistan’s published history and, in the process, constructing a national bibliography for the country, the Afghanistan Digital Library reconstructed an essential part of Afghanistan’s cultural heritage. The Afghanistan Digital Library is a project of New York University Libraries with the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Reed Foundation and the W.L.S. Spencer Foundation.