[Purpose/significance] The authors aim to systematically sort out the majority research advances of the China’s library, information, and archives management community in 2020. [Method/process] It employes content analysis assisted with textual coding. It comprehensively and focusedly reviews three aspects of the field: information management under COVID-19 pandemic; information management in context of national strategies; new technologies, new pratice, and new liberal arts. [Result/conclusion] The authors argue that academic research in this field presents three characteristics in 2020: unprecedented concerns about major social crises, a joint force of awareness and action in response to the country's strategic needs, and the coexistence of a century of glory and future dangers in the discipline.