Carol Smallwood received a MLS from Western Michigan University, MA in History from Eastern Michigan University. Librarians as Community Partners: an Outreach Handbook; Bringing the Arts into the Library is one of her ALA anthologies. Other anthologies include: Creative Management of Small Public Libraries in the 21st Century ed. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015); Library Youth Outreach co-ed (McFarland, 2014); Marketing Your Library (McFarland, 2012); Google for Patron Library Use (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015). Her library experience includes school, public, academic, special, as well as administration, and library systems consultant. In 2019, Carol Smallwood was awarded the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who's Who.