Dr. Jessie Carney Smith, University Librarian and the William and Camille Cosby Professor, at Fisk University, is a native of Greensboro, North Carolina. She is also consultant to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and has served as consultant to the Office for Civil Rights in the desegregation of higher education institutions in Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, and North Carolina. She also has served as consultant and proposal reviewer for the U.S. Office of Education and the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

Dr. Smith attended the internationally renowned Pugwash Conference in Nova Scotia; lectured in a workshop for minority colleges in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico; served as chairperson of the library section, Conference on Manding Studies, University of London in England; directed a librarians' conference workshop in Tokyo, Japan for the United States Army, was book reviewer and program participant on Black in Hamilton, Bermuda; and made an educational tour of Dakar, Senegal. 

Dr. Smith is the author of numerous journal articles and several books, including Notable Black American Women, Epic Lives: One Hundred Black Women Who Made A Difference, and Powerful Black Women.

Dr. Smith has received numerous honors. Her most recent include the National Coalition of 100 Black Women's Candace Award in Education; the Women's National Book Association Award; the Black Caucus of the American Library Association Achievement Award; and the Anna J. Cooper Award for Distinguished Scholarship from SAGE journal on black women.  

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