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 immediate past Chair of the National Library of Medicine Biomedical Library and Informatics Review Committee (NIH Study Section). From 2003-2004, she served as a mentor in the NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows program and currently co-chairs that program.

In January of 2006, Jenkins was appointed by Dan Reed, Director of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), Chancellor's Eminent Professor and Vice Chancellor for Information Technology, to lead the campus-wide UNC Information Technology Strategic Planning Committee, a campus-wide task force on the future of IT at UNC at Chapel Hill.

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