Bøker av Dale Carpenter

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.He worked as a one-person library and in a library network of over 135. He created 3, modernized 5 and moved 4 corporate libraries in the aerospace/defense, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, and outplacement industries. From 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 levelsIn this book Dale discusses corporate 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.

How much time do you waste every month making a food shopping list? An Organized Librarian gives you a complete food shopping list you should store in your computer, customize to your likes and dislikes and hang on your fridge. When you need something just mark it in pencil on the list, take the list to the store and you will never forget to pick up items again.The three keys to our three house entrances look a lot alike so I turned the main entrance key facing the opposite direction on the key ring from the other two. Saves a lot of time finding the right key.This are just some of the organizational tips Dale Carpenter provides in this book, designed to help you manage and organize your life.Dale Carpenter has been organized most of his life and has made a living out of creating, organizing and managing corporate libraries.

"Computer Software Evaluation" tells you how to determine your specific 'needs' and 'wants' and how to compare multiple software packages.After surveying department managers about their needs, the IT department about software and hardware standards, the author value-ranked the needs and wants into functional requirements. Then software packages were reviewed to see if they met those requirements. Each step of this process is detailed, from user surveys, value ranking spreadsheets, a line item quote example to a management project proposal.Dale Carpenter is a librarian who has also been a construction worker, dj, short order cook and band roadie.