Information center: A new department in China´s publishing houses

Information Center is the organizational foundation for the informatization of publishing industry. Relative to the material construction for informatization, the organizational construction has generally fallen behind in domestic publishing houses nowadays. This paper emphasized the necessity for establishing Information Center in publishing houses, made a three-level analysis of the functions of Information Center, and put forward some proposal to meet the problems such as the functional localization of Information Center, and so on.