○ The Nammyeong Collections are housed in Nammyeong Hall, and managed by the Literary Well Office (a division of the Gyeongsang National University Library). The Collections form a unique research resource for the study of Master Jo Sik (1501-1572), a well-known Gyeongsang born scholar who had a profound influence in scholarly circles west of the Nakdong River in the Gyeongsang region, and whose most well-known pen name was ‘Nam-myeong’ (“The Great Southern Ocean”).     ○ The documents made accessible online by Gyeongsang National University (GSNU) were selected among the materials in the archive library of Mun-cheon-kak. Following a major cataloging and preservation program, around 3,500,000 pages of materials focusing on Nammyeong and his circle of Confucian scholars in the western part of the Gyeongsang region have already been converted to image files. Image files already provided by other institutions are not duplicated but there are convenient links to them throughout the 800,000 pages already available in the GSNU database system. For the first time in Korea, the image files were produced using high resolution color scanning so as to replicate the feeling that one is looking at the authentic document. Advanced search functions are available     ○ One element within the project activities was the digitization of selected texts from the Nammyeong Collections in order to promote reader-friendly browsing of the data. To this effect, around ten million Chinese characters are supported in the display of the digitized data files. This enables readers to see the image files in their typed versions, and will help them to interpret the materials.