Carbo Resigns as Dean of School of Information Sciences, Effective June 2002

Announcement

March 26, 2001

Dear Colleagues,

With deep regret, I announce that Dr. Toni Carbo has submitted her resignation as Dean of the School of Information Sciences (SIS), effective June 30, 2002. Her decision to step down from the deanship to return to teaching and research concludes 16 years of leadership and service to the School of Information Sciences and the University of Pittsburgh.

Dean Carbo received her baccalaureate degree at Brown University and her master's and doctorate at Drexel University. She is Past-President of the American Society for Information Science and Technology and the Association for Library and Information Science Education. She was a member of the US Advisory Council on the National Information Infrastructure and served as a US representative to the G-7 Round Table of Business Leaders to the G-7 Information Society Conference in 1995 in Brussels. Dr. Carbo has been Executive Director of the US National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, which advises the President and Congress on policy and planning in the information field. Her work in the information field includes extensive experience with information service producers and users (both libraries and database producers) and in research in the areas of information policy and use.

Under Dean Carbo's leadership, the School of Information Sciences has realized enrollment increases to nearly 900 students and recognition for its Master of Science in Telecommunications, its Telecommunications Track in the PhD program and its Master of Library and Information Science (ranked third in the nation). During her deanship, SIS obtained its first endowed chair, the Doreen E. Boyce Chair of Library and Information Science, with funding provided by the Buhl Foundation, developed the first Information Ethics program, and realized a very strong faculty and research program.

I have been grateful for Dean Carbo's insightful participation on the University Planning and Budgeting Committee and the Information Technology Steering Committee. I am very pleased that Dean Carbo will continue at the University as Professor in the School of Information Sciences and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. A search committee will be formed in the coming weeks with the intention of identifying Dean Carbo's successor by next spring.

Sincerely,
James V. Maher