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ABOUT THE LECTURE:
Summary: As the roles of LIS professionals continue to
evolve, new challenges face us in balancing the many roles demanded
of us. Increasingly, we are called up to serve as educators and
"translators" to teach the many publics we serve, to
continue to educate ourselves, and to translate among the many
groups with whom we interact, increasingly across institutional
boundaries and national borders. We are also called upon to develop
and implement policies throughout the entire life-cycle of information.
Among the greatest challenges facing us is the need to earn trust
in the information we provide, in the organizations for which
we work, and in ourselves. Understanding our own sense of ethics
and calling upon that sense throughout all aspects of our work
is the greatest challenge we face. This presentation will address
these issues and seek to stimulate discussion on them.
Outline:
INFORMATION ETHICS: CHALLENGES FOR LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
PROFESSIONALS
by Toni Carbo
Luminary Lecture @ Your Library
December 9, 2002
- Introduction
- Disclaimer
- Background
- Context/Emerging Trends
- A. Greater focus on the individual
- Increasingly global society
- Connecting across wider communities
- Balancing the "old" and the "new"
- Balancing the roles of the information professional
- Emphasis on trust
- Summary of trends
- Areas of information ethics issues
- Selection/collection
- Ownership/integrity of content
- Preservation/exclusion
- Access/dissemination
- Management
- Trust/individual integrity
- Conclusion
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Toni Carbo is a professor in the School of Information Sciences
(SIS) and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
(GSPIA) at the University of Pittsburgh, where she served as Dean
of the School of Information Sciences from September 1986 through
June 2002. Currently on sabbatical, Dr. Carbo is the first Madison
Council Fellow in Library and Information Science at the John
W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress, where she is conducting
research on Information Ethics and Policy related to electronic
government in the United States and the European Union.
From 1980-1986, she was Executive Director of the U.S. National
Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS), the government
agency established in 1970 to advise the President and Congress
on policy and planning in the library and information field. Her
work in the information field began in 1962 and includes extensive
experience working with information service producers and users
(database producers and libraries) and conducting research in
the areas of information policy and use. She has an A.B. from
Brown University and M.S. and Ph.D. from Drexel University.
Dr. Carbo chairs the board of the Center for Democracy and Technology
(CDT) and is vice-chair of Three Rivers Connect(3RC), a non-profit
organization working to harness Information Technology to improve
the quality of life in Western Pennsylvania. She was elected to
the International Women's Forum of Western Pennsylvania. She is
a member of the Senator John Heinz Award Jury for Technology,
the Economy, and Employment. From 1994-1996, she was a member
of the US National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council
(NII AC) and was named one of seven US representatives to the
G-7 Round Table of Business Leaders for the G-7 Information Society
Conference, February 1995, in Brussels, Belgium.
Dr. Carbo is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS), the Institute of Information Scientists (IIS),
the National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services
(NFAIS), and the Special Libraries Association (SLA). In 1989,
she was president of the American Society for Information Science
and Technology (ASIST) from which she received its Watson Davis
Award in 1983. Among her other awards are: membership in Beta
Phi Mu in 1973, the Distinguished Service Award from the Pennsylvania
Library Association (PLA) in 1995, the American Library Association's
(ALA) Fiftieth Anniversary Honor Roll of Legislative and Grass
Roots Library Champions, and the Greater Pittsburgh YWCA Science
and Technology Award in 2000. She was selected by Drexel University
as one of the 100 most distinguished of its 60,000 alumni and
was awarded its Centennial Medal. In 2002 she was honored by the
U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
in a special resolution for her "outstanding lifelong contributions
to the field of library and information science, for government,
for academia, for the business and industrial sector, for professional
societies, and in the international arena."
Active in international information policy for more than three
decades, Dr. Carbo served as a member of the Planning Committee
of the first UNESCO Infoethics Conference in Monaco, March 1997
and has been involved with planning several other Information
Ethics programs. She co-chaired the University of Pittsburgh--European
Union conference on e-government, in 2001. She chaired the last
US delegation to a general council meeting, that of the UNESCO
General Information Programme (PGI), in 1984 and served as a member
of the 1982 delegation. She was co-chair of the US National Committee
for the International Federation for Information and Documentation
(FID), chair of FID's Infostructures and Policies Committee, which
oversaw the FID's role in the Global Information Alliance (GIA),
and chair of the FID-IDRC Advice Group for the Project on the
Impact of Information. She has directed several international
research projects related to the use of scientific and technical
information, and her research on overlap in coverage of scientific
literature is considered the seminal work in the field.
Dr. Carbo was also a member of the Research Advisory Committee
of OCLC. She is a member of the Information Futures Institute
of Clarion University, served on the ASIS Award of Merit Jury,
and was a member of the board of the Greater Pittsburgh Literacy
Council (GPLC) for five years.
Author of more than 100 articles, speeches, and technical reports
in the information sciences, and co-editor with James G. Williams
of Information Science: Still an Emerging Discipline, Dr. Carbo
is the Editor of The International Information and Library Review
(IILR), published by Academic Press and has served on the editorial
boards and as a reviewer for several publications.
She has one daughter, Amanda Carbo-Bearman Rochon.
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