Toni Carbo
Toni Carbo (also published as Toni Carbo Bearman) is a retired American information scientist and a professor emerita in the School of Computing and Information at the University of Pittsburgh.[1] 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.
Education and career
[edit]Carbo was the fifth daughter of seven in her family.[2] She began working in information science as an assistant for Mathematical Reviews in 1962. She studied English, American, and French literature as an undergraduate at Brown University, graduating in 1969. She went to the Drexel University College of Information Studies for a master's degree in 1973 and a Ph.D. in 1977.[3]
She worked as executive director of the National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services from 1974 to 1979,[3] and then (after briefly working for the Institution of Electrical Engineers in London) as executive director of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science from 1980 to 1986.[3][4]
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. She retired as professor emerita in 2009.[3][1]
With Michael Menou, she founded the Special Interest Group/International Information Issues of the Association for Information Science and Technology in 1982.[2] 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.[5] She was president of the Association for Library and Information Science Education for 1997–1998.[3]
Recognition
[edit]In 1981, Carbo was named as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[6] She also became a Fellow of the Special Libraries Association in 1993.[3]
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.[5] She was the 2018 recipient of the Award of Merit - Association for Information Science and Technology.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Toni Carbo, Professor Emerita", People, University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information, retrieved 2024-09-25
- ^ a b 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
- ^ a b c d e f Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2024-09-25
- ^ "People", ACRL College & Research Libraries News, 41 (10), 1980, retrieved 2024-09-25
- ^ a b "iCaucus awards first Raymond von Dran Award to Drexel's Toni Carbo", Syracuse University News: STEM, 11 February 2010, retrieved 2024-09-25
- ^ Historic fellows, American Association for the Advancement of Science, retrieved 2024-09-24
- ^ Middleton, Lydia (7 August 2018), Carbo Wins 2018 Award of Merit, Association for Information Science & Technology, retrieved 2024-09-24
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