• Born Penshurst, New South Wales on 15 September 1942 to Bob and Jean Mills (Nee Bennett).
• Moved to Cronulla in 1947 where she attended the local State primary school.
• Completed her secondary education at Kogarah Girls High and studied for two years at Sydney University.
• Worked at the Fisher Library, University of Sydney from 1963-65.
• Travelled and worked for three years as a librarian in Europe and England.
• Returning to Australia in 1969 she became second librarian appointed to the newly-formed Canberra College of Advanced Education until 1984.
• From 1975-83 she completed a four-volume bibliography of literature emanating from the Northern Territory.
• Gained a Bachelor of Arts degree at the Australian National University in 1977 and a Masters Degree in Librarianship from the University of London.
• Throughout the 1980s she published a series of articles in the Lu Rees Archives on early Australian writers and book illustrators.
• As Librarian at the William Merrylees Library, Charles Sturt University at Wagga, from 1984-2000 she published a number of articles on Australian book history.
• From 1993-95 she was seconded to the library of the University of the South Pacific in Suva, publishing a number of articles on library management and literacy in the South Pacific region.
• She retired to Canberra in 2000 and deposited her papers in the National Library. She has made provision for a generous bequest to that library on her death.

Sources used to compile this entry: Ann-Mari Jordens, 'Carol Mills: Academic Librarian, book historian, bibliographer and benefactor', Online article to National Library of Australia development site http://www.nla.gov.au/library/sponsorship/ [accessed 2005-03-23].