Toni Carbo

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Toni Carbo
Director of the
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
In office
1980–1986
Known for
  • Information ethics
  • Founding ASIS&T SIG/International Information Issues
  • Founding member of the iSchools Caucus
Awards
Fields Information science
Institutions
Website sites.pitt.edu/~carbo/

Toni Carbo (also published as Toni Carbo Bearman [1] ) is a retired American information scientist and a professor emerita in the School of Computing and Information at the University of Pittsburgh. [2] She is a founder of the AIST Special Interest Group/International Information Issues and of the iSchools Caucus, and a former president of the Association for Library and Information Science Education.

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Education and career

Carbo began working in the information science field in 1962. [3] She earned an A.B in English literature at Brown University in 1969. [4] She then went to the Drexel University College of Information Studies for a master's degree in 1973 and a Ph.D. in 1977. [4]

She worked as executive director of the National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services from 1974 to 1979, [1] and then (after briefly working for the Institution of Electrical Engineers in London) [1] as executive director of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science from 1980 to 1986. [5]

She came to the University of Pittsburgh as professor of information sciences and dean of the School of Information Sciences in 1986, and continued as dean until 2002. [2] Carbo had a desire to add a course on information ethics to the school, and with the help of Professor Stephen Almagno, they started with a lecture series in 1989 with Robert Drinan as their first lecturer. [6] The success of the lecture series led to Carbo and Almagno creating and teaching a graduate level course the following year called The Ethics of Information in Society, which was later renamed Information Ethics. [6] She retired as professor emerita in 2009. [2]

With Michael Menou, she founded the Special Interest Group/International Information Issues of the Association for Information Science and Technology in 1982. [7] In the late 1980s, Carbo initiated regular meetings among the then-three deans of information schools, and revitalized the group in the late 1990s. It became the iSchools Caucus, an international consortium of over 100 information schools. [8] She was president of the Association for Library and Information Science Education for 1997–1998. [9]

Publications and presentations

Carbo has published and presented widely from the 1980s to the 2000s. [4] She covered many information science topics, including information ethics (both the subject itself and how to teach information science students about the topic), e-government, global information infrastructure, and information policy. [2] [6] [10]

Recognition

In 1981, Carbo was named as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. [11] She also became a Fellow of the Special Libraries Association in 1993. [12]

In 2010, she became the inaugural recipient of the iCaucus Raymond von Dran Award, recognizing her pioneering efforts in the 1980s and 1990s to define the field of information science. [8] She was the 2018 recipient of the Award of Merit - Association for Information Science and Technology. [13]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "People", ACRL College & Research Libraries News, 41 (10), 1980, retrieved 2024-09-25
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Toni Carbo, Professor Emerita", People, University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information, 30 July 2020, retrieved 2024-09-25
  3. ↑ Member Bios : Brown University Library Brown University Library , retrieved 2025-10-09
  4. 1 2 3 Curriculum vitae , retrieved 2024-09-25
  5. ↑ National Commission on Libraries and Information Science Records, 1966-1995 (majority within 1979-1989) , retrieved 2025-10-09
  6. 1 2 3 Carbo, Toni; Almagno, Stephen, "Information Ethics: The Duty, Privilege and Challenge of Educating Information Professionals" (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-09-10, retrieved 2017-02-28
  7. ↑ Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw (June 2014), "Interviews with SIG/III co-founders: Reflections of Toni Carbo and Michel Menou", Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 40 (5), Wiley: 12–16, doi:10.1002/bult.2014.1720400505
  8. 1 2 "iCaucus awards first Raymond von Dran Award to Drexel's Toni Carbo", Syracuse University News: STEM, 11 February 2010, retrieved 2024-09-25
  9. ↑ Board of Directors, Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)
  10. ↑ Carbo, Toni (2008), "Global information ethics: Intercultural perspectives on past and future research", Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59 (7): 1111–1123, retrieved 2025-10-09
  11. ↑ Historic fellows, American Association for the Advancement of Science, retrieved 2024-09-24
  12. ↑ Fellows of SLA , retrieved 2024-09-25
  13. ↑ Middleton, Lydia (7 August 2018), Carbo Wins 2018 Award of Merit, Association for Information Science & Technology, retrieved 2024-09-24
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