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The Section Programming Committee for MLA '05 is looking for fresh approaches to programming on the issues and challenges facing health sciences libraries today. Go to http://www.mlanet.org/am/am2005/participate/sp_themes.html to see a complete list of themes and the call for abstracts. While many of these programs call for contributed papers and invited speakers, some of these programs call for a different kind of submission: a theme poster, case scenario, panel, or skit script. Take a look at the innovative topic proposals and see if you have a program/ideas/research you would like to present!

 The Leadership and Management Section has agreed to sponsor or co-sponsor several sessions. It would be terrific to have Section members participate! So please consider participating in the following sessions:
Managing Library Schizophrenia (Part I): Staffing -- Contributed papers and skits: How do you manage? How does work get done? How do you attract these staff members and what do you do to keep them? Submit a traditional abstract or a skit outline to be performed. Managing Library

Schizophrenia (Part II): Diverse Roles to Diverse Constituencies -- Contributed papers, case scenarios, skits: What is required in fulfilling these roles for these users? How do you decide what to be, for whom, how, and why? Submit a traditional abstract, a case scenario, or a skit script you are willing to perform to help treat or cure this library schizophrenia.

Educate, Enrich, and Enhance: Technical Services Internal Educational Outreach/Eduque, Enriquezca y Realce: Extendiendo la Educacion Interna de los Servicios Técnicos -- Contributed papers: Focus on how technical services librarians have accepted the challenge and taken the opportunity to use diverse methods to educate, share knowledge, and extend their reach and sphere of influence beyond the technical services unit and the ways these initiatives have enriched the knowledge and skill level of peers, patrons, and others while enhancing library service, including cross-functional training and teams to meet new demands and challenges.

Celebrate Me Home -- Contributed papers: Demonstrate what you learned and how you applied this new knowledge. How did this experience affect you and your institution? Did you have any wonderful or not-so-wonderful unanticipated outcomes?

Establishing Best Practice -- Contributed papers: What are the established sources for best practice in such fields? How are these established? How do you teach others to use this evidence effectively for their practices? How have you applied the MLA benchmarking data and the results of your LibQual+ survey to your own or your institution's decision making?

Stepping out in a Clinical Way and Meanwhile Who's Covering Home Base -- Contributed papers: How are these changes handled? What are the strategies to provide excellent service to all your clientele at the same time? Do they require new staffing patterns and methods of setting priorities and managing? Are there special strategies and considerations to provide excellent service to a niche of users, so they are not tempted to open a departmental library?