This database is an online interface to the Pamphlet Collections System created by the New Delhi Library of Congress Office to manage the acquisition, subject organization, microfiching and minimal-level cataloging of ephemeral materials not selected for full-level cataloging or individual microfiching. The System is a dynamically updated database that grows from the continuing acquisition of items suitable for microfiching with related materials.

Since 1991, the New Delhi Office has been organizing in subject collections and microfiching pamphlets, little magazines and other gray literature acquired by the office in the countries of Asia for which it has acquisitions or cataloging responsibility. These collections include most of the materials acquired over the years and organized by the Library's South Asian Section in the Asian Division, which were returned to New Delhi for microfiching, as well as all ephemeral publications acquired by the office since 1991. As of October 2001, over 1,400 collections had been established and microfiched. These collections contain approximately 21,300 individual items.

Most ephemera published currently in South Asia will fall within the subject of collections previously microfiched. Newly published items are collected until there are sufficient numbers for the creation of another set of microfiches, designated as a sequential "part" of the same subject heading. For example, there are many parts to the "Women in India" collection, first established and microfiched in 1992. New collection headings are established as needed to capture items on new subjects.