Deb Carver Named Interim Associate VP for Information Services

The AVP for Information Services is the university's chief administrator for computing, networking, and telecommunication issues. Carver will serve in the position while a national search for a new AVP is conducted.

Carver has chaired or cochaired the university's Educational Technology Committee for three years. She also serves as the university's representative for the Northwest Academic Computing Council (NWACC).

Carver, who was named the Oregon Library Association's 1999 Librarian of the Year, has been a member of the UO faculty since 1990. She was appointed by the Oregon Senate to serve on the Interim Legislative Committee on Libraries and was a member of Oregon's Statewide Database Licensing Committee. She represented the state as an elected member of the American Library Association Council from 1998 to 2001.

She was president of the Oregon Library Association in 1995-96 and served on its legislative committee and chaired its Vision 2010 Task Force.

A 1973 magna cum laude graduate in political science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Carver earned a master's degree in library science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1976 and a master's degree in public administration from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, in 1984.