Call it what you will, it's coming and UB needs to be as ready as possible for this most unpredictable event.

For that reason, the UB Year 2000 Steering Committee is holding a UB Year 2000 Awareness Day on Nov. 5 in 120 Clemens Hall on the North Campus.

Open to the university community, the day-long event will feature Year 2000 status reports from representatives of Computing and Information Technology, Facilities, Libraries, the Research Foundation, the Provost's Office, Student Support and other university units.

The presentations will describe what the university has done to date to address issues related to the Y2K problem, what still needs to be done and, most importantly, what the university expects individual offices to do.

Techniques on how to take an office Year 2000 inventory and then make systems compliant also will be covered. UB's Y2K Web site and other reliable Year 2000 Web sites also will be covered.

"The program is designed to answer the question, 'How will the Year 2000 problem affect me and my work?'" explained Carolann Lazarus, information services auditor and chair of the program.

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