[Purpose/significance] The construction of new liberal arts drives the continuous process of archival science entering the transformation and upgrading, which needs to clarify the development direction and space. [Method/process] On the one hand, this paper analyzes the essence of new arts from the perspective of relevance and interprets it as the growth point of archival discipline; on the other hand, it combines the development of archival discipline to describe the development direction and content based on the growth point dynamically. [Result/conclusion] Then, the paper puts forward the development of the development space as follows: systematic construction of application properties driven by the comprehensive national strength promotion, discipline upgrade strategy setting under globalization and localization of superposition, crossover system full upgrade led by panoramic space-time structure, and fully determined transformation mechanism of knowledge creation within the balance of innovation and stability.