Carol Smallwood

Carol Smallwood is an American poet and writer. She won the National Federation of State Poetry Societies Award. Smallwood also was awarded the Franklin-Christoph Poetry Contest Winner title, and the Eric Hoffer Award for Prose.

Smallwood has been working in the education and library administration fields as early as 1961. She has written non-fiction books for libraries, including Library Services for Multicultural Patrons: Strategies to Encourage Library Use, co-edited with Kim Becnel. The book provides public and higher education libraries with strategies and tested programs to encourage patron interaction with libraries. Library Journal found that there was a "useful array of ideas for administrators, IT staff, and frontline librarians seeking programming and service success." Also published around the same time was Continuing Education for Librarians: Essays on Career Improevement through Classes, Workshops, Conferences and More (2013) which was called "timely and informative" by Feliciter. Her book, How to Thrive as a Solo Librarian (2011), presents librarians with practical advice for librarians who must take on multiple roles in their career. She edited The Frugal Librarian: Thriving in Tough Economic Times (2011), which Library Resources & Technical Services described as being broad in scope, with not all resources useful to all readers. Information Today called The Frugal Librarian a "valuable resource" for libraries dealing with tough economic times. Librarians as Community Partners: An Outreach Handbook (2009), works best as an idea-generator for programs, but Booklist lamented that there were "no guidelines for reproducing these successes or assisting readers in designing their own outreach." Smallwood's book, Insider's Guide to School Libraries: Tips and Resources (1997) shares Smallwood's own advice based on her own twenty-years' worth of experience. The Journal of Academic Librarianship wrote that Smallwood's book, A Guide to Selected Federal Agency Programs and Publications for Librarians and Teachers (1986) was a useful and comprehensive guide to Federal agencies in the United States.

Smallwood's work as a poet has been called "skilled and generous" by Women's Studies.

Her book, co-edited with Cynthia Brackett-Vincent, Contemporary American Women: Our Defining Passages (2009) collects "multicultural narratives by American women from diverse backgrounds and life experiences."

Smallwood received her Bachelor's of Science degree from Eastern Michigan University in 1961. She later earned a Master's degree in Art in 1963. and MLA Library Science degree from Western Michigan University in 1976.

Books

• In Hubble's Shadow, Shanti Arts Publishing, 2017, ISBN 9781941830444
• Interweavings: Creative Nonfiction, Shanti Arts Publishing, 2017, ISBN 9781941830468
• Divining the Prime Meridian, WordTech Editions, 2015, ISBN 9781625491114
• Water, Earth, Air, Fire, and Picket Fences, Lamar University Press, 2014, ISBN 9780991107483
• Compartments: Poems on Nature, Femininity and Other Realms, Anaphora Literary Press, 2011. ISBN 9781681141848
• Lily's Odyssey, All Things That Matter Press, 2010, ISBN 9780984098453
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Chapbooks

• A Ceremony (The Head & The Hand Press, 2014)
• On the Way to Wendy's (Pudding House Publications, 2008)

• National Federation of State Poetry Societies Award
• Franklin-Christoph Poetry Contest Winner
• Eric Hoffer Award for Prose
• ByLine 1st Place for First Chapter of a Novel