Access Popular Magazines Online with Your Smyrna Public Library Card

Did you know you have free access to digital magazines with your Smyrna Public Library card? Here's how: download the Libby app to your mobile device, search for "Georgia Download Destination" (our library's consortium), and sign in with your Smyrna Library card number and PIN. The Libby app gives you access to eMagazines, eBooks, and eAudiobooks. Have fun!

Visit from Stellaluna

Thank you to all our friends who came out to meet Stellaluna. She was so excited to fly back to her mom with stories about all the high-fives she's got!

About Stellaluna:

While out searching for food, fruit bat Stellaluna and her mother are attacked by a vicious owl. Stellaluna is separated from Mother Bat and taken in by a family of birds where she must put aside her bat habits to fit in with her new family. 

But one fateful flight when she is separated from her adoptive siblings, Stellaluna is reunited with her bat family and learns that even though we're different, we're very much the same. 

©1993 Janell Cannon

Congratulations to Ms. Hannah !!!

Congratulations to Ms. Hannah on her fifth anniversary with the City of Smyrna!  We appreciate everything you do at the Smyrna Public Library. 

New Smyrna Public Library Movie DVD Titles

Please check out the Smyrna Public Library Movie DVD collection and new September DVD arrivals. You will find classics, movies from the Film Movement Series or the movie not available in any of your streaming apps! 

Congratulations to Smyrna's National Merit Semi-Finalists!

Congratulations to Smyrna's National Merit Semi-Finalists!

Campbell High School:
Sameer Aurora, Lauren Y. Lee

Whitefield Academy:
Aaron R. Berry, Alisha R. Berry, Zoe A. Justice

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by reading a great book! Sign up for Smyrna Library's Adult Reading Challenge; read a book by a Latinx author or about Hispanic heritage, and be entered to win dinner for two at Porch Light Latin Kitchen!

Mixed Media by Howard Conyers Campbell Opens at Smyrna Public Library Art Gallery

The September/October 2021 Art Gallery exhibit has opened – Mixed Media by Howard Conyers Campbell.  Mr. Campbell’s exhibit is on display through October 31. The Art Gallery is located on the 2nd floor of the Smyrna Public Library.

Art Gallery exhibits are organized by the Friends of Smyrna Library. 

Artist Statement

Campbell was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, in 1961 and grew up in the small agrarian community of Metter, Georgia. He was immersed as a young person in the vast outdoors, and the many dimensions of nature and various civic activities of the city.

He is a contemporary abstract artist, who creates vibrant paintings that express luscious colors and shapes in intricate compositions. His noted personal style emanates joy, peace and harmony, with a healthy vivid imagination and artistic ability, that is compatible with his curiosity and awareness about the experiences of everyday life.

The artist graduated with a Bachelors of Technology, Printing management-Layout & Design. He traveled to Europe visiting major museums in Amsterdam, France, Germany and Italy. This adventure cemented an insatiable desire to pursue creating art. Moving forward, whatever he created, such as landscapes or now, abstract paintings, using tools of acrylics, oils and the palette knife, he brought together combinations of bold colors, shapes and light, as the principles of spirit in each creation. As Georgia O’Keeffe said, “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way - things I had no words for.” They help us to identify most things in nature. He has been painting full time for many years now after leaving the work force as an Elementary School Teacher, Federal Assigned Program Tutor, and a Florist.

He has shown/exhibited at various artist markets, such as ARTucker Artist Market, Virginia Highlands Summerfest, Inman Park Spring Festival & Tour of Homes, “Art form the Heart” Artist Market, Candler Park Fall Fest, and Plogix Gallery Group. He is now sponsored by the Smyrna Arts Council, and has had installments in the Smyrna City Hall and Smyrna City Library. Other social media platforms that he participates in are Facebook, Instagram, and is a continuing Contributing Member of the High Museum of Art.

His website is www.howardcampbell-art.com

He presently lives in the beautiful area of Virginia Highlands in Atlanta, Georgia.