Chu Jingli, Huang Shuiqing
[Purpose/significance] For library, information and archives management, and related subjects, the release of 2021 new edition of the discipline specialties catalogue (draft for comments) by Office of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee means not only the renaming of the first-level subject, but also the important changes of connotation and system of the subject. For this, we need to analyze and think the significance of the renaming and the strategies of the subject construction for the future. [Method/process] By the literature review and historical analysis, the development evolution of "information resources management" was outlined, to strengthen the rational understanding the renaming of the first-level discipline and propose new strategies for the construction of the first-level subject. [Result/conclusion] The recognition and research for the concept and connotation, significance and value, scope and boundary, method and technology, subject and theory, application and effect, planning and future of "information resources management" as a first-level discipline should be improved by the academia and practitioners, to make promote the fundamental change from name to contents of the first-level subject.