Alphabetical By Color: 40+ Years as the 'Clark Kent' of Library Science

In his 40 plus years as a librarian, Dale Carpenter worked in academic, corporate, government, private, public, and special libraries and had sex in several of them. In this book Dale discusses leadership and management styles and how to work with and around them, managing your manager, essential and useful skills one needs, career survival tactics, and creative ways to market and sell your skills and your library's resources & services. This is not an autobiography. Only real world experiences related to the library profession are mentioned and how the skills and knowledge learned are useful to the profession. Dale worked as a one-person library and in a library network of over 135 individuals. He created 3, modernized 5 and moved 4 corporate libraries in the aerospace/defense, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, and outplacement industries. From wood card catalogs and mainframe computers to computer tablets and smartphones, Dale performed almost all library positions, including creating library home web pages, writing policies and procedures, and reviewing, rating and selecting document management software for a new pharmaceutical library. This last task was described in "Computer Software Evaluation: Balancing User's Needs and Wants." Dale also has over 30 years experience designing and presenting corporate training programs on research skills and the use of online resources to all disciplines and management levels.