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              This paper puts forward some suggestions for the development and reform of health informatics
            education in LIS schools in China, for instance, establishing major or concentration area in health
            informatics, integrating multidisciplinary and institutions resource, setting definite goals of
            talents training and normative curriculum system according to international standards and taking
            full advantage of information science. Only twelve LIS schools in North America have been
            selected for research in this paper. It is necessary to expand the scope of the quantity of the data
            to make sure sufficient demonstration. In China, there are several teachers who are engaged in the
            research of health information, and some courses on health information behavior are held in the
            LIS schools, and now health information is getting more and more attention. The problems and
            development of health information education in China need further analysis.




            The silent guardian of Chinese librarianship: Analysis on Miss Mary
            Elizabeth Wood’s will
                      〇a*
            PENG Minhui〇
            Miss Mary Elizabeth Wood is the founder of Boone Library and Boone Library School. Her will is
            one of the most important documents in the history of Library Science in China, which is yet to be
            uncovered and discussed adequately.
              This article provides the translation of the full text of the will which has not been revealed to the
            public yet, including four terms with respect to the Boone Library and Boone Library School, the
            Mary Elizabeth Wood Foundation, the Woodfern Cottage and certain other funds. According to the
            textual research of the source of the will, the people involved and the historical background, this
            document has been proved to be credible.
              Based on the relevant historical materials collected from multiple sources, this paper makes
            a thorough analysis of the main demands of the will. The core concerns of Miss Wood’s will
            focused on two points: ① Boone Library would not be controlled by Central China College, and
            ② the Boone Library School would develop independently. In her will, Miss Wood emphasized
            repeatedly the nature of Boone Library of serving the public and stipulated that Boone Library
            would remain an independent public library instead of reverting to a college library. The reason for
            this was that Central China College claimed that Boone Library should become under exclusive
            use of Central China College, and Central China College further exerted the force of public
            opinion on Boone Library, attempting to fulfill its purpose. Such action not only threatened the
            fundamental nature of Boone Library as a public library but also caused negative effects on the
            Boone Library School’s independency on account of the close connection between the Library
            and the School, which aroused Miss Wood’s strong opposition. The reason for the second point


            * Correspondence should be addressed to PENG Minhui, Email: pengmh@whu.edu.cn, ORCID: 0000-0003-2573-5735
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