Authorized for the first doctoral program of SOIM in 'Information Science', ‘Management Science and Engineering’ and ‘Library Information and Archives Management’ in 2005, 2012 and 2017. Authorized to set up a mobile station for post-doctoral research in ‘Library Information and Archives Management’ in 2014

Authorized for the first master degree program of SOIM in ‘Information Science’ in 2001. Authorized for the master degree program in ‘Management Science and Engineering’, 'Library Science' and 'Library and Information Science' in 2003, 2005 and 2014 seperately. Authorized for the first-level master degree program in ‘Library Information and Archives Management’ in 2010.

Restored establishing the Department of Library and Information Science, and set up the major called ‘Library and Information Science’ in 1984. The Department was renamed ‘the Department of Information Management’ in 1993. Became the first school in China to set up the major of ‘E-Commerce’ in 1999. Set up a major called ‘Information Resource Management’ in 2013