Abstract: The personnel archives,as the most important resource of talents in universities,serves as the crucial basis and carrier for universities’ recruitment and improvement of teaching and research.The researches on the personnel archives in universities are all about 4 aspects,namely its information construction,purpose,management system and institutional mechanism.In order to make breakthroughs on the current research,innovations must be made towards the theory,methods,avenues and channels.Only in this way can the management be improved and actualize its fundamental function to serve the future development of universities.

Key words: personnel archives in universities, management, current research, innovation