The School of Information Management (SIM) of Wuhan University is the oldest and largest Library and Information Science (LIS) education and research institution in China. The predecessor of SIM was Boone Library School at Wuchang, which was founded by Mary Elizabeth Wood and Samuel T. Y. Seng in March 1920. In 1953, Boone Library School merged into Wuhan University and became Wuhan University's Department of Library Science. In 1984, the Ministry of Education of China (MOE) approved the set up of the School of Library and Information Science of Wuhan University and it has become the School of Information Management of Wuhan University since 2001.