Toni Carbo

Toni Carbo (also published as Toni Carbo Bearman) (born 1942) is a retired American information scientist and a professor emerita in the School of Computing and Information at the University of Pittsburgh. She directed the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) from 1980-1986. She is a founder of the ASIST Special Interest Group/International Information Issues and of the iSchools Caucus. In addition to the Award of Merit (2018), Carbo served as President of ASIS (1990) and President of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) (1997-1998).

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Life

Toni Carbo was born on November 14, 1942 in Middletown, Connecticut. Carbo began working in the library of the American Mathematical Society (Providence, RI) in 1962. She earned an A.B. in English literature at Brown University in 1969. She then went to Drexel University for a M.S. (Library and Information Science) in 1973, and was the first Ph.D. graduate in 1977 under the new doctoral program of the Graduate School of Library Science.[1]

She was married to David A. Bearman from 1970 to 1995. Toni Carbo has one daughter, Amanda Carbo-Bearman Rochon,[2] and three grandchildren.

Contributions

Carbo worked as executive director of the National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services (NFAIS) from 1974 to 1979, and then at the Institution of Electrical Engineers in London as special projects consultant for strategic planning and new product development (Sept 1979 to Sept 1980). She was selected as Executive Director of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) from 1980 to 1986.[3]

She moved to the University of Pittsburgh as professor of information sciences and dean of the School of Information Sciences in fall 1986, and continued as dean until 2002. She retired as professor emerita in 2009. Carbo served as iSchool Program Leader at the Center for Graduate Studies in, Sacramento, California for Drexel University from June 2009 - June 2012.[4]

With Michel Menou, she founded the Special Interest Group/International Information Issues in ASIS in 1982. 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. She served on the ASIS Council (late 1970s) and was president of ALISE for 1997–1998. She was a member of the ASIS&T 80th Anniversary Celebration Taskforce, chaired the 50th Anniversary Conference Committee, and co-chaired the 75th Anniversary Celebration Committee.[5] Dr. Carbo was Editor of The International Information and Library Review (IILR) for 22 years (1993-2012). She served as P.I. of the IMLS-funded Spectrum Doctoral Fellowship. Carbo presented widely and published on many information science topics, including information ethics (and teaching the topic), e-government, global information infrastructure, and information policy.

Publications

Carbo, Toni & Martha M. Smith. (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, doi:10.1002/asi.20851
Carbo, T. (2008). Ethics Education for Information Professionals. Journal of Library Administration 47 (3–4): 5–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/01930820802186324
Richard J. Cox with Mary K. Biagini, Toni Carbo, Tony Debons, Ellen Detlefsen, Jose Marie Griffiths, Don King, David Robins, Richard Thompson, Chris Tomer, and Martin Weiss. (December 2001). The Day the World Changed: Implications for Archival, Library, and Information Sciences. First Monday 6 (12), https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v6i12.908
Carbo, Toni. 2002. "Information Ethics: Challenges for Library and Information Science Professionals". Luminary Lectures @ Your Library. https://guides.loc.gov/luminary-lectures/information-ethics-library-science
Carbo, Toni & Almagno, Stephen. (2001). Information Ethics: The Duty, Privilege and Challenge of Educating Information Professionals. Library Trends 49 (3): 510-518. https://hdl.handle.net/2142/8351
Carbo, T. (December/January 1990). Information Transforming Society: Translating Our Vision into Reality. Presidential Address, American Society for Information Science (ASIS) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 1, 1989. American Society for Information Science Bulletin 16: pp. 9 - 11.
Bearman TC. (1975). World Inventory of Abstracting and Indexing Services. Drug Information Journal 9 (2-3): 91-94. doi:10.1177/2168479075009002-308

Awards

ASIST Award of Merit, 2018
iCaucus Raymond von Dran Award inaugural recipient, 2010
ALISE Award for Service, 2007
Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania, 2004
ALISE Professional Contribution to Library and Information Science Education Award, January 2002
National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services (NFAIS) Fellow, 2000
President, Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), 1997-1998
Miles Conrad Lectureship, National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services (NFAIS), 1997
AAAS Councilor, 1997
Special Libraries Association Fellow, 1993
Drexel 100 Award, selected among Drexel’s 100 most distinguished alumni, 1992
President of ASIS, 1990
American Library Association (ALA) Councilor, July 1989 - 1992
National Information Standards Organization (NISO - Z39) Board and Executive Committee Member, 1987 - 1990
ASIST Watson Davis Award, 1983
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS - Information, Computing, and Communication) Fellow, 1981
Institute of Information Scientists (IIS) Fellow, 1980

Papers

Relevant papers are housed in the "NCLIS Records, 1966-1995 (majority within 1979-1989)" at the University of Michigan Library: https://findingaids.lib.umich.edu/catalog/umich-scl-nclis
Relevant papers are housed under "Carbo, Toni" in the "University of Pittsburgh Archives Personal Files" at the University of Pittsburgh Archives: https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3AUS-PPiU-uapersonalfiles/viewer
Relevant papers are housed under "Bearman, Toni Carbo, 1977" in the "Biographical reference collection (UR-10-002)" at the Drexel University Archives: https://archivalcollections.drexel.edu/repositories/4/archival_objects/185786

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