The iSchool at Drexel, College of Information Science and Technology, is pleased to congratulate Dr. Toni Carbo, the College's program leader at the Drexel University Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento, who was honored as this year's von Dran Award recipient at iConference 2010. The von Dran award is intended to recognize leadership in the information field. 

"We at the iSchool are pleased that Toni has been recognized in this capacity," said iSchool at Drexel Dean David E. Fenske. "Her career and research accomplishments are staggering."

Dr. Carbo's work in the information field began in 1962, and includes extensive experience with information service producers and users, and in research in the areas of information policy and information ethics, and the use of information. A lauded Drexel alumna, Dr. Carbo earned two graduate degrees from The iSchool at Drexel: her master of science in 1973 and her PhD in 1977. She was selected by Drexel as one of the 100 most distinguished alumni and was awarded the University's Centennial Medal. Dr. Carbo returned to Drexel in June 2009, after 22 years at the University of Pittsburgh, where she served as dean for 16 years and was a founding member of the initial group of deans which later became the iSchools Caucus.  

Immediately prior to her appointment as the iSchool program leader at the Drexel University Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento, Dr. Carbo served as a professor at the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) and at the School of Information Sciences (SIS) - where she was director of the Institute for Information Ethics and Policy and the ALA Spectrum Doctoral Fellows program. She has also served executive director of the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Services (NCLIS), the government agency responsible for advising the President and U.S. Congress on policy and planning in the information field.

Dr. Carbo's teaching and research interests focus on information ethics and information policy, specifically concerning e-government in the United States, the European Union and Sub-Saharan Africa, and on academic libraries. She is the author of numerous articles, book chapters and technical reports, and is editor of The International Information and Library Review.