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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