# Association for Library and Information Science Education

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.

## History

ALISE is the successor organization to the Association of American Library Schools (AALS), which was founded in 1900. 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. Organizationally, AALS and ALA had many connections, especially in the first 30 years of AALS's existence. Donald G. Davis traced the efforts within ALA for the improvement of library education.

## 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.

## Presidents
### 2020–present

* 2024/24. Vanessa Irvin, East Carolina University
* 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
* 2013/14. Eileen Abels, Simmons College
* 2012/13. Melissa Gross, Florida State University
* 2011/12. Lynne C. Howarth, University of Toronto
* 2010/11. Lorna Peterson, University at Buffalo, State University of New York

### 2000–2010

* 2009/10. Linda C. Smith, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
* 2008/09. Michele V. Cloonan, Simmons College
* 2007/08. Connie Van Fleet, University of Oklahoma
* 2006/07. John Budd, University of Missouri – Columbia
* 2005/06. Ken Haycock, San Jose State University
* 2003/05. Louise S. Robbins, University of Wisconsin-Madison
* 2002/03. Elizabeth Aversa, University of Tennessee
* 2001/02. Prudence Dalrymple, Dominican University
* 2000/01. James M. Matarazzo, Simmons College

### 1990–1999

* 1999/00. Shirley Fitzgibbons, Indiana University
* 1998/99. Shirley Fitzgibbons, Indiana University
* 1997/98. Toni Carbo, University of Pittsburgh
* 1996/97. Joan C. Durrance, University of Michigan
* 1995/96. June Lester, University of Oklahoma
* 1994/95. Charles Curran, University of South Carolina
* 1993/94. Timothy W. Sineath, University of Kentucky
* 1992/93. Adele M. Fasick, University of Toronto
* 1991/92. Evelyn Daniel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
* 1990/91. Phyllis Van Orden, Florida State University

### 1980–1989

* 1989/90. Miles M. Jackson, University of Hawaii at Manoa
* 1988/89. Leigh S. Estabrook, University of Illinois
* 1987/88. Kathleen M. Heim , Louisiana State University
* 1986/87. Ann Prentice, University of Tennessee
* 1985/86. Norman Horrocks, Dalhousie University
* 1984/85. Jane B. Robbins, University of Wisconsin-Madison
* 1983/84. Robert D. Stueart, Simmons College
* 1982/83. F. William Summers, University of South Carolina
* 1981/82. Harold Goldstein, Florida State University
* 1980/81. Charles A. Bunge, University of Wisconsin-Madison

### 1970–1979

* 1979/80. Genevieve Casey, Wayne State University
* 1978/79. Gary R. Purcell, University of Tennessee
* 1977/78. Margaret K. Goggin, University of Denver
* 1976/77. Guy Garrison, Drexel University
* 1975/76. Kenneth E. Vance, University of Michigan
* 1974/75. Elizabeth W. Stone, Catholic University
* 1973/74. R. Brian Land, University of Toronto
* 1972/73. Thomas Slavens, University of Michigan
* 1971/72. Margaret Monroe, University of Wisconsin-Madison
* 1970/71. Patricia B. Knapp, Wayne State University

### 1960–1969

* 1969/70. Rev. James J. Kortendick, Catholic University1968/69 Samuel Rothstein, University of British Columbia
* 1967/68. Virginia Lacy Jones, Atlanta University
* 1966/67. LeRoy C. Merritt, University of California
* 1965/66. L. Dorothy Bevis, University of Washington
* 1964/65. Jesse Shera, Case Western Reserve University
* 1963/64. Wayne Yenawine, Syracuse University
* 1961/62. Martha Boaz, University of Southern California
* 1960/61. Edward A. Wight, University of California, Berkeley

### 1950–1959

* 1959/60. David K. Berninghausen, University of Minnesota
* 1958/59. Esther Stallmann, University of Texas
* 1957/58. Lowell A. Martin, Rutgers University
* 1956/57. Frances N. Cheney, Peabody University
* 1955/56. Harold Lancour, University of Illinois
* 1954/55. Louise LeFevre, Western Michigan University
* 1953/54. Carl Melinat, Syracuse University
* 1952/53. C. Irene Hayner, University of Minnesota
* 1951/52. Rose B. Phelps, University of Illinois

### 1940–1949

* 1949/50. J. Periam Danton, University of California, Berkeley
* 1948/49. Rudolph Hjalmar Gjelsness, University of Michigan
* 1947/48. George C. Allez, University of Wisconsin, Madison
* 1946/47. Florrinell F. Morton, Louisiana State University
* 1945/46. Anne M. Boyd, University of Illinois
* 1944/45. Alice Higgins, New Jersey
* 1943/44. Frances H. Kelly, Carnegie Institute of Technology
* 1942/43. Leon Carnovsky, University of Chicago
* 1941/42. Herman H. Henkle, Simmons College
* 1940/41. Lucie E. Fay, Columbia

### 1930–1939

* 1939/40. Tommie Dora Barker, Emory
* 1938/39. Louis Round Wilson, Chicago
* 1937/38. Harriet E. Howe, Denver
* 1936/37. Ethel M. Fair, New Jersey
* 1935/36. Ralph Munn, Carnegie Institute of Technology
* 1934/35. Phineas L. Windsor, Illinois
* 1933/34. Sydney B. Mitchell, California
* 1932/33. Arthur Elmore Bostwick, St. Louis Public
* 1931/32. Clara E. Howard, Emory
* 1930/31. Charles C. Williamson, Columbia

### 1920–1929

* 1929/30. Charles C. Williamson, Columbia
* 1928/29. June R. Donnelly, Simmons College
* 1927/28. Josephine Adams Rathbone, Pratt
* 1926/27. Phineas L. Windsor, Illinois
* 1925/26. William E. Henry, Washington
* 1924/25. Susie Lee Crumley, Carnegie (Atlanta)
* 1923/24. Harriet P. Sawyer, St. Louis Public
* 1922/23. Ernest J. Reece, New York Public
* 1921/22. Phineas L. Windsor, Illinois
* 1920/21. Josephine Adams Rathbone, Pratt

### 1915–1920

* 1919/20. Frank K. Walter, New York State
* 1918/19. Alice S. Tyler, Western Reserve
* 1917/18. Sarah Bogle, Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh)
* 1916/17. June R. Donnelly, Simmons College
* 1915/16. James Ingersoll Wyer, New York State