Deborah A. Carver

Deborah A. Carver (born 1951) is a retired Philip H. Knight Dean of Libraries at the University of Oregon (UO) in the United States.

Carver is a 1973 political science graduate, magna cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Carver's 1976 library science master's degree is from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her 1984 public administration master's degree is from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Carver met her husband John Pegg when she enrolled in his mountaineering class.

Together, they have climbed all major mountain peaks on the west coast of the United States.

Carver serves on the Eugene Symphony Board of Directors.

Carver began at UO in 1990 as an assistant university librarian for public services.

During her tenure at the University of Oregon since 1990, Carver oversaw significant changes in services and facilities:

Carver served as president of the Pacific Northwest Library Association in 1995–1996.

She was named OLA's Oregon Librarian of the Year in 1999.

She became dean of libraries in 2002.

She also provided leadership within the Oregon Library Association (OLA).

In 2002, Carver chaired the task force that developed the OLA plan to provide all Oregon residents with access to Oregon's research library collections.

Carver was named Philip H. Knight University Librarian, an endowed chair, in July 2002.

In 2011, Carver secured a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create archival finding aids for 28 archives included in the Northwest Digital Archives.

In 2014, she received the OLA Distinguished Service Award, and the nomination letter noted, "She has never wavered from the vision of the Orbis Cascade Alliance as a shared resource for all students and faculty in the region."