About ISO

The Information Services Office (ISO) is responsible for creating, maintaining, and disseminating a NIST knowledge base which supports the research and administrative needs required to fulfill the scientific, engineering, and technical mission of NIST.

 

ISO provides professional scientific and technical research assistance through three primary programs: Research Library Information Program, Electronic Information and Publications Program, and NIST Museum and History Program.

 

The three floors of the physical Library house over 200,000 science, engineering, and technology volumes. The Library facility is also home to the NIST Museum which boasts numerous exhibits and artifacts.

 

Award-winning Information Center

 

In recognition of its outstanding, innovative, and sustained achievements during Fiscal Year 2008, the Information Services Office (formerly the Information Services Division) received the 2008 Federal Library of the Year Award from the Library of Congress Federal Library & Information Center Committee (FLICC). ISO was recognized for its Lab Liaison Program, implementation of an electronic resources management system, and creation of a Vision Implementation Project, to engage its staff in understanding the ISO vision and participating in strategic planning.

 

The Office also received the Federal Library of the Year Award for 2003 and 2008. Federal libraries throughout the United States and abroad compete for the award. Read more at www.loc.gov/flicc/Awards/libctr_main.html. ISO was also the recipient of the 2007 Silver Maryland Performance Excellence Award, recognized as a role-model organization whose performance is worthy of emulation.

 

For a list of publications and presentations by ISO staff: ISO Publications and Presentations.

 

About the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

 

Founded in 1901, NIST is a non-regulatory agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce. NIST's mission is to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life.

 

NIST was formerly known as the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), which was located in Washington, D.C. until 1966. In 1967, the NBS site relocated to Gaithersburg, and in 1989, the National Bureau of Standards was renamed the National Institute of Standards and Technology.