Carol Smallwood received her MLS from Western Michigan University and her MA in history from Eastern Michigan University. She is the author or editor of numerous books for Scarecrow, McFarland, Libraries Unlimited, Pudding House Publications, Peter Lang, and others. Some other credits include The Writer's Chronicle, Journal of Formal Poetry, Detroit News, Instructor, English Journal, and Michigan Feminist Studies. Her novel, Lily's Odyssey, appeared in 2010; she coedited the anthology Contemporary American Women: Our Defining Passages (2009), and she has a short story in Best New Writing 2010. A 2009 National Federation of State Poetry Societies Award Winner and a finalist for the 2009 Eric Hoffer Award for prose, she has experience in school, public, and special libraries and has served as a library consultant. Smallwood appears in Contemporary Authors, Who's Who in America, and is a member of the American Library Association. She received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019.

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Fewer employees, shorter hours, diminished collection budgets, reduced programs and services—all at a time of record library usage. Don't fret and fritter away scarce resources. Be frugal! In this book, library expert Carol Smallwood demonstrates that despite the obvious downsides, the necessity of doing business differently can be positive, leading to partnering, sharing, and innovating. This collection speaks to universal concerns, presenting creative and resourceful solutions from dozens of librarians representing a wide variety of institutions. The Frugal Librarian helps library professionals
- Find supplementary funding sources, including grants
- Save money by sharing resources, using tiered staffing for technical services, and implementing green IT
- Tap into grassroots movements to save neighborhood libraries
- Preserve and enhance important library functions like programming, outreach, and staff development, despite a tight budget
This book offers plenty of ideas that can be implemented immediately.
Part I: Helping Patrons Job Search
1. Knowledge-Based Job Hunting and Interview Preparation
2. Start Your Job Search Here
Part II: Librarian Survival
3. Entrepreneurs in the Library: How an Entrepreneurial Spirit Expanded the Patron Base and Elevated Its Political Standing
4. Laid Off? Here's One Way to Land on Your Feet
5. Low- and No-Cost Development Opportunities for Librarians
6. Online Resources in Michigan: A School Librarian Survives Hard Times
Part III: Grants
7. Grant Proposals for the Working Librarian: From Idea to Implementation
8. Tools for Grant Searching
9. Writing Grant Proposals for Diverse Populations
Part IV: Programming
10. Creating and Sustaining Community-Focused Programs
11. Nothing to Lose: Creative Programming for the Frugal Librarian
Part V: Sharing
12. Increasing Resources in Tough Times: A New Funding Model for the Purdue University Career Wiki
13. Innovating and Saving with Joint-Use Libraries
14. Multitype Regional Library Responses to the Economic Crisis
15. Museum Passes: A Low-Cost, High-Impact Partnership
16. Saving by Sharing: Using Open-Source and Shared Catalogs to Do More with Less
Part VI: Management
17. Bringing the Outside Back In: Creative and Cost-Effective Outreach Strategies
18. Cost Factors in Digital Projects: A Model Useful in Other Applications
19. Data-Driven Cancellation Decisions
20. Green Information Technology Saves Money, Saves Resources
21. Managing Staff Stress during Budget Crises: Lessons for Library Managers
22. Student Assistants: Maximize Effectiveness through Coordinated Training
Part VII: On-the-Job Success
23. Bidding Service Contracts in Public Libraries
24. Digital Projects on a Shoestring
25. Developing Partnerships for Added Value
26. Organizing in the Streets and in the Stacks: A Grassroots Movement Saves Neighborhood Libraries
27. Turning Gifts and Discards into Gold
28. A Small School Library Meets the Economic Challenge
Part VIII: Staffing
29. Leveraging Internal Resources to Fill Library Staff Shortages Temporarily
30. Making Good by Making Do: Using Student Staff to Drive Library Technology Innovation
31. Tiered Staffing for Technical Services
32. We're All in This Together: Solutions for Creative Staffing
Part IX: Professional Development
33. Building Sustainable Professional Development Opportunities in Technology Literacy
34. $40 A Day, or Attending Library Conferences on the Cheap
"A useful, sensibly priced collection."
--The Australian Library Journal
"I recommend the book for providing good suggestions and generating ideas for different libraries in different settings. It also provides a very good overview of challenges in library work for newer professionals."
--Library Resources & Technical Services