"Promotes innovation and excellence in research, teaching, and service for educators and scholars in Library and Information Science and cognate disciplines internationally through leadership, collaboration, advocacy, and dissemination of research."[1]
The Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) (pronounced "Ah-lease") promotes education for the information professions internationally through engagement, advocacy and research.
ALISE is a non-profit professional association for faculty, staff, and students in the library and information sciences and allied disciplines.[2]
History
ALISE is the successor organization to the Association of American Library Schools (AALS), which was founded in 1900.[3] AALS replaced the American Library Association (ALA) Roundtable of Library School Instructors (1911–1915) but was not affiliated with the American Library Association until 1953.[4] Organizationally, AALS and ALA had many connections, especially in the first 30 years of AALS's existence.[5] Donald G. Davis traced the efforts within ALA for the improvement of library education.[6]
Journal of Education for Library and Information Science (JELIS)
Since 1960, ALISE has published the peer-reviewed scholarly publication, Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. JELIS serves as a primary source of research about issues pertinent to library and information science educators and scholars.[7]
Presidents
2020–present
2023/24. Lucy Santos-Green, University of Iowa
2022/23. Rong Tang, Simmons University
2021/22. Lisa O'Connor, University of North Carolina Greensboro
2020/21. Sandy Hirsch, San Jose State University
2010–2019
2019/20. Stephen Bajjaly, Wayne State University
2018/19. Heidi Julien, University at Buffalo
2017/18. Dietmar Wolfram, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2016/17. Louise Spiteri, Dalhousie University
2015/16. Samantha Hastings, University of South Carolina
2014/15. Clara Chu, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
^ALISE. Expanding our Horizons: Strategic Directions, 2011–2014 "Strategic Directions". Archived from the original on 2014-09-03. Retrieved 2014-08-29.
^Shove, R.H. "AALS before 1915." Journal of Education for Librarianship 1960, 1 : 81–86.
^Shirley Fitzgibbons. Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) In Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Third Edition. Taylor and Francis: New York, Published online: 09 Dec 2009; 328–340.
^Davis, Donald Gordon. 1974. The Association of American Library Schools, 1915–1968: an analytical history. Metuchen: N.J.