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.
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] 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.