The American Documentation Institute (ADI) was founded by Watson Davis (1896-1967) in 1935 as Documentation Institute which changed its name to the American Documentation Institute in 1937. In 1968 it changed its name to American Society for Information Science, which again in 2000 changed its name to the present: American Society for Information Science and Technology

American Society for Information Science and Technology

The American Society for Information Science and Technology, sometimes abbreviated ASIS&T or ASIST, is a non-profit membership organization for information professionals...

Watson Davis was one of the first Americans to take an interest in how the terms “document

Document

The term document has multiple meanings in ordinary language and in scholarship. WordNet 3.1. lists four meanings :* document, written document, papers...

” and “documentation

Documentation science

-Introduction:Documentation science, documentation studies or just documentation is a field of study and a profession founded by Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine . Professionals educated in this field are termed documentalists...

” were being used in Europe.
ADI published the journal American Documentation which in 1968 changed name to Journal of the American Society for Information Science and in 2000 became Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.

From 1966 ADI published the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology

Annual Review of Information Science and Technology

The Annual Review of Information Science and Technology was an annual review journal published from 1966 to 2011. It was established in 1965 by the American Documentation Institute and the National Science Foundation. It published review articles rather than empirical research articles. It's last ...