National Information Standards Organization

The National Information Standards Organization is a US non-profit standards organization founded in 1939.

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]