19 13, William Harry clemons, a famous American library scientist, opened a library science course in Jinling University, one of the predecessors of Nanjing University, which is the origin of library science education in China.
1922, Southeast University, one of the predecessors of Nanjing University, opened a summer library workshop, which has been held every year since 1926.
1927, the Library Department of Jinling University was established. "In the autumn of 16 years, the University of Arts and Sciences opened a library department." Since then, the library science education of Jinda University has been formally established independently.
1978, restoring the library science major; 1985, relying on the good foundation of library science specialty, rebuild the library department of Nanjing University. Since then, it has been renamed the Department of Literature and Information Science of Nanjing University and the Department of Information Management of Nanjing University.
20 1 1 The Department of Information Management of Nanjing University was upgraded to the School of Information Management of Nanjing University, and in the same year it joined the international iSchools organization.
On the morning of 201118, the inaugural meeting of the School of Information Management of Nanjing University was held in the lecture hall on the first floor of the Science and Technology Museum. The meeting was presided over by Jiang Ying, Party Secretary of Information Management College. Yang Zhong, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Vice President of Nanjing University, read out the Notice of Nanjing University on Establishing the School of Information Management, the Decision on Establishing the Committee of the School of Information Management of Nanjing University and the Decision on Appointing the Party and Government Leading Group of the School of Information Management of Nanjing University. Chen Jun, member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and president of Nanjing University, unveiled the School of Information Management and delivered a speech. President Chen said that the establishment of the School of Information Management is the result of the unremitting efforts of several generations of library and information experts, and it is a full affirmation of the development of library and information higher education in Nanjing University for more than 80 years. It is also an inevitable requirement to unite the strength of the discipline, the development direction, enhance the comprehensive strength and promote the sound and rapid development of the discipline of library, information and archives management. The establishment of the college opened a new chapter in the development of information management. At the same time, Dean Chen put forward three hopes for the newly established Institute of Information Management: first, seize the opportunity and establish new development goals; Second, carefully plan and concise better school-running characteristics; Third, reform and innovation to achieve new breakthroughs in the cause.