Strategies which will assist this process are being drafted and will be developed further in consultation with academic staff. The Library is also hoping to extend its electronic publishing activities. Over the past few years, the Library has digitised more than one hundred Australian literary and other texts. These have been made available on the Internet to support teaching and research. The skills developed through these projects can be applied to original publication.
Projects are under way to test their use for the publication of monographs, journals and theses.
In time, these mechanisms will provide a basis for a digital University of Sydney Press. The planning undertaken by Library staff is aimed at ensuring that the Library remains a dynamic contributor to the success of the University. It also seeks to maintain the reputation of the Library as one of the foremost university libraries in this country and one which is recognised internationally for the way in which it supports teaching, learning and research. The Library has activated a separate search link on the Web catalogue which allows you to search and display in the vernacular scripts for Chinese, Japanese and Korean materials. In order to use this service, special software must be loaded in conjunction with a Web browser.