Carol Jenkins has been the Director of the Health Sciences Library since 1986. She has provided leadership to the library during an exciting period of growth and change, including an extensive renovation completed two years ago.

Jenkins is Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Information and Library Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has a long history of engagement within the University community, serving on numerous task forces and selection committees. Prior to coming to North Carolina in 1986, Jenkins held library administrative positions at the University of Maryland, University of Virginia, and Oregon Health Sciences University. She won management traineeships at the University of Cincinnati and the Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration at Bryn Mawr College. She is a graduate of Kalamazoo College and received her MLS degree from the University of Oregon. Jenkins is active in a number of professional organizations, including the American Medical Informatics Association, (AMIA), the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL), the Medical Library Association (MLA) and the Mid-Atlantic Chapter Medical Library Association (MAC).

Her publications, consulting, and professional presentations are in the areas of information outreach, changes in scholarly publication, new library buildings and preparing health sciences librarians for future roles. She is a past president of two national library associations, and past Chair of the National Library of Medicine Biomedical Library and Informatics Review Committee (NIH Study Section). From 2003-2004, and again in 2007-2008, she served as a mentor in the NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows program and currently co-chairs that program.

Through more than two decades of service to Carolina Jenkins has held numerous leadership roles. These include Chair of the Committee on the Status of Women, and Board member of BRIDGES, a program preparing women for academic administrative leadership; member of the Executive Committee of Faculty Council and of the University Budget Advisory Committee; and Chair of the committee that wrote a campuswide plan for information technology services.

Jenkins and her family live on an old Orange County farm just outside of Chapel Hill.