ALISE is a non-profit professional association for faculty, staff, and students in the library and information sciences and allied disciplines.

[2] ALISE is the successor organization to the Association of American Library Schools (AALS), which was founded in 1900.

[5] Donald G. Davis traced the efforts within ALA for the improvement of library education.

[6] 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.