Oct . 04, 2013
Sherry L. Xie, a SLAIS iSchool PhD, has been hired by the Renmin University of China as a full professor in its School of
Information Resource Management and the Associate Director of the Center for Electronic Records Management Research,
starting September 2013. Directed by Prof. Feng Huiling, Vice President of the university, the Center has been the leading force
in proposing national policies on digital records management and is responsible for setting/maintaining nation-wide standards regarding the design of Electronic Records Management Systems (ERMS). The ERMS Testing and Certifying
Center, located also in the School of Information Resource Management, is set up as one component of the Data and Knowledge
Engineering Research Lab supported by the Department of Education and jointly administered by the School and the School of
Information Technology. The testing of ERMS software started in 2012.