Sarah C. Michalak
Associate Provost and University LibrarianWalter Royal Davis Library |
University Libraries Website: http://www.lib.unc.edu/
Sarah came to Carolina from the University of Utah, where she served as director of the J. Willard Marriott Library for nine years. A graduate of the University of California, Riverside, she earned her master’s in library science from UCLA. Her professional career began at UC Riverside. She then moved to the University of Washington, Seattle, where she served as Head of the Science Libraries; Special Assistant to the Director of Libraries; Head, Collection Access Services and Library Development; and Assistant Director of Libraries, Library Development and Planning. As Assistant Director of Libraries, Library Development and Planning, she led construction and implementation of a major addition to the main library.
Sarah currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Center for Research Libraries, the Journal of Library Administration Editorial Board, the Association of College and Research Libraries' College and Research Libraries Editorial Board, and as an ex-officio member of the Association of Research Libraries Board of Directors. She previously served on the boards of directors of the Association of Research Libraries, the American Library Association, the Library Administration and Management Association and the Text Creation Partnership. She led major digital library and cooperative collection development initiatives in the Utah Academic Library Consortium and in the Greater Western Library Alliance, a thirty-member research library consortium spanning the Midwest and the West. Her publications and presentations concern library facilities design, the crisis in scholarly communications, the development of digital libraries, and new methods of providing access to digital information.
