Hello, all,

I hope you will join the ACRL New Members Discussion Group at ALA Midwinter
for a roundtable discussion on where collegiality meets productivity in
libraries. More info below:
*Title: How to Get Things Done: A Guide for Librarians**When: *Sunday,
January 26, 2014, 10:30 am to 11:30 am*Where:* PCC 121A*Scheduler Link:*
http://alamw14.ala.org/node/12564
#GTDlibraries

Summary: Many librarians, especially those in the early part of their
career, struggle to identify opportunities for change in their workplaces
while also maintaining a good relationship with colleagues. This session
will cover how to pick your battles, how to identify opportunities for
change, and when to accept things as they are. We will have four panelists
at this event: Aaron Dobbs, Heather McNabb, Michelle S. Millet, and Sha
Towers. This session is sponsored by the ACRL New Member Discussion Group,
but will be appropriate for librarians of all types.
*Panelist Bios:*
*Sha Towers *is the Director of Liaison Services at the Baylor University
Libraries, where he leads a team of nine liaison librarians and twenty
three public services staff members across five service points. Prior to
that he served as the head of Baylor's Fine Arts Library for nine years. He
holds an MLIS from University of Texas at Austin. He lives in the tension
between being a procrastinator and productivity junky. You can find him
online at about.me/shatowers.
*Heather McNabb* is a Branch Manager at Evansville-Vanderburgh Public
Library. She was previously the Director at the Poseyville Carnegie Public
Library for over 3 years.  Ms. McNabb serves on the Indiana Library
Federation Board, the Indiana State Library’s Professional Development
Committee, and was a member of the inaugural 2012 cohort for the Indiana
Librarians Leadership Academy.  By speaking up and speaking out McNabb
likes to shake things up and challenge the status quo at the libraries
where she works.
*Aaron Dobbs* is the Systems Librarian at Shippensburg University of
Pennsylvania. After working in both public and special libraries, he
transitioned to academic librarianship at Austin Peay State University. In
this position, he found improvements easier to explore and advocate, which
led to his current role at Shippensburg. His experiences with overcoming
obstacles to change and passive resistance have served him well both in his
day job and within ALA. Aaron carries an illustrious record in ALA,
including longstanding service on ALA Council and work on the Board of
Directors of LITA.
*Michelle S. Millet *is the Library Director at John Carroll University in
Cleveland, OH. She's been in her position since August 2012. Previously,
she's worked at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Trinity University,
and The University of Montana. She likes to ask questions about why we do
what we do in libraries and encourages librarians and staff to take risks
and sometimes fail. Her research interests include information literacy
across the curriculum, the role of the library in student success and
retention, and library and campus assessment.
-td
Tyler Dzuba | Head, Physics-Optics-Astronomy Library | University of
Rochester
 585-275-7659 (main) | 585-275-5965 (secondary) | @silent_d