On April 21, the Signing Ceremony of Deepening Cooperation Memorandum Between Wuhan University Library and the School of Information Management, and Professor Chuanfu Chen’s Academic Report Meeting was held. Ping Wu, Vice President of Wuhan University, Feicheng Ma, Senior Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Wuhan University, Dean of the Big Data Institute of Wuhan University, Chuanfu Chen, Senior Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Wuhan University, and Dean of the Graduate School, Wuhan University, attended the meeting.

Youming Dong, Curators of Wuhan University Library, pointed out that the SIM has a long history and strong strength, which is a solid backing for the innovative development and influence enhancement of Wuhan University Library. The cooperation between Wuhan University Library and the SIM has a long history, good inheritance and fruitful results. He said that Wuhan University Library would follow the requirements of cooperation, be realistic and forge ahead, and promote the high-quality development of both sides.

Wei Lu, Dean of the SIM, Wuhan University, said that the School and the Library have supported each other and made progress together in the historical development, thus forming a deep friendship. He pointed out that in the era of big data, taking the initiative to carry out all-round cooperation with industry was not only a requirement for implementing the high-quality connotation development of Wuhan University, but also an important measure to promote the implementation of the 14th Five-Year Plan of the School, and an important guarantee for building a world-class discipline. Deepening this cooperation would inject new vitality into the development of the School. The School would explore more with the Library, continuously expand cooperation fields and share the fruits of cooperation.

At the meeting, Youming Dong and Wei Lu signed a Memorandum of Cooperation. The Signing Ceremony was presided over by Chuanming You, CPC Secretary of Wuhan University Library.

The two sides will carry out all-round cooperation in discipline construction, personnel training and team building, scientific research and influence enhancement based on the principle of "complementary advantages, co-construction and sharing, openness, cooperation and win-win". The Library strives to ensure the literature resources, digital resources and information services required for the construction of the first-class discipline of Library, Information, and Archives Management, and supports the construction of the SIM Branch Library in all directions; Provide necessary support for the discipline development, teaching reform and curriculum system construction of the School, and participate in the construction of majors and degree points of the School. As the School practice and teaching base, the Library provides places and guidance for all kinds of practice training and teaching. The School leads, unites and supports the Library to carry out scientific research; The Library provides practice scenes and application evaluation for the transformation and application of related scientific research achievements, and assists in application promotion; The two sides will focus on strengthening research cooperation in library management, smart library construction, digital literacy, digitization of ancient books, digital humanities and other fields, and jointly build the Intelligent Computing of Cultural Heritage Laboratory, Wuhan University. In addition, the two sides will jointly hold international and domestic academic conferences and build various application platforms to enhance academic influence.

According to the cooperation clause, the Library is the co-construction partner of the Intelligent Computing of Cultural Heritage, Philosophy and Social Sciences Laboratory of the Ministry of Education. Qing Fang, Dean of the Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, Wuhan University, Xiaoguang Wang, Director of the Intelligent Computing of Cultural Heritage, Philosophy and Social Sciences Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, and Associate Dean of the SIM,Wuhan University, and Ruhua Huang, Deputy Curators of Wuhan University Library, jointly unveiled the plaque.

As the Chief Scientist of the Intelligent Computing of Cultural Heritage, Philosophy and Social Sciences Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, Feicheng Ma said that the Library and the SIM have maintained a good cooperative relationship for a long time. In the era of digital transformation, it is more important to deepen cooperation between Library and the School. He pointed out that the Library is rich in historical and cultural resources, and he expects the two sides to further open up research fields and have research results in cooperation, so as to make contributions to China's library and information undertakings, information management undertakings and digital transformation.

Ping Wu congratulated the signing of the Memorandum on Deepening Cooperation. She pointed out that the relationship between the Library and the SIM has a long history. The SIM has trained and delivered many curators and a large number of outstanding professional librarians for the Library. The Library is a strong support for the School to carry out teaching, scientific research and personnel training. This cooperation is of great significance. She hopes that the two sides will join hands to further implement the cooperation clause, make contributions to the cause of talent cultivation, and carry out scientific research together to achieve fruitful results.

After the Signing Ceremony, Chuanfu Chen gave an academic report on Open Science and University Library. Through the reform case of Harvard University Library, he introduced the new environment, new challenges and new opportunities faced by the library under the background of open science, discussed the development trend of the library community, proposed that the library should build a more professional, credible, user-involved and seamless library based on its own brand, resources, system and team advantages, and explored the theoretical thinking of library service innovation, governance issues, environmental integration, value transfer and social responsibility. A large amount of data, rich materials and cutting-edge views have brought us a splendid academic feast.