Dr. Carol Walker Jordan is the Dorothy Colmer Bailey Librarian, University Librarian at Everett Library, Queens University of Charlotte. Carol has a B.A. in Psychology and a M.Ed. in Counseling. She also holds a M.L.I.S. in Library and Information Science and a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policies from the University of South Carolina.

Everett Library houses a series of collections focused upon Charlotte and Mecklenburg history, including the Barton Jackson Cathey Archives and the Ann Batten Collection, the papers of Dr. Billy O. Wireman, former president of Queens for twenty-four years, Scottish literature provided by the St. Andrew Society of Carolina, the Charles Hadley Theatre and Film Collection, and the scholarly papers of Dr. Paul Newman, poet and former Queens Professor Emeritus. The Rena Harrel Special Collections Room houses memorabilia of Queens as well as Charlotte and Mecklenburg County.

Currently, Carol is chair of the SOLINET Board, a Charlotte Rotary Club Committee member, and is involved in Collection Development at The Charlotte Museum of History. She is also a research docent at The Mint Museum of Art, a member of the Adjunct Faculty at the School of Library and Information Science at UNCG, and a Former Vice Chair of The Mecklenburg County Law Library Board.

“My reading style is to work on a number of books at once,” Carol states. “I read a few pages or a chapter and set one aside as I work on another. I usually enjoy a book I read so much I don't want to finish it so I prolong the time I spend with each one.”

Reading list: The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley, Sacred Stacks by Nancy K. Maxwell, A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Piedmont North Carolina by Catherine W. Bishir and Michael T. Southern, and My Life in France by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme.

“Currently, I am researching the life and work of Anna Hyatt Huntington,” Carol added. “[She is]an animalist sculptor whose work appears most prominently at Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina. My hope is to create an educational biography of her life.”