National Information Standards Organization

National Information Standards Organization
Abbreviation	NISO
Formation	June 22, 1939
Type	Non-Profit
Purpose	National standards
Headquarters	Baltimore, Maryland
Membership	221 organizations
Official language	English
Executive Director	Todd A. Carpenter
Budget	US$1.2 million
Staff	6
Volunteers	500
Website	www.niso.org
Formerly called	Z39 Committee

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO; /ˈnaɪsoʊ/) is a United States non-profit standards organization that develops, maintains and publishes technical standards related to publishing, bibliographic and library applications. It was founded in 1939 as the Z39 Committee, chaired from 1963-1977 by Jerrold Orne,^[3] incorporated as a not-for-profit education association in 1983, and assumed its current name in 1984.^[4]

^ National Information Standards Organization (NISO) archives > ArchivesUM
^ Cite error: The named reference NISOmembership was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Lawrence G. Livingston. (1997). "Bibliographic Standards and the Evolving National Network" in Orne, Jerrold and Herbert Poole (1977) Academic Libraries by the Year 2000: Essays Honoring Jerrold Orne. New York: R.R. Bowker.
^ "What We Do". National Information Standards Organization. Retrieved January 22, 2020.

[1] National Information Standards Organization (NISO) archives > ArchivesUM

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[3] Lawrence G. Livingston. (1997). "Bibliographic Standards and the Evolving National Network" in Orne, Jerrold and Herbert Poole (1977) Academic Libraries by the Year 2000: Essays Honoring Jerrold Orne. New York: R.R. Bowker.

[4] "What We Do". National Information Standards Organization. Retrieved January 22, 2020.

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