Has UCB done contingency planning for January 1, 2000?
A. Some individual departments have contingency plans. UCB has a standard emergency plan in place, but no overall campus contingency plan for the Y2K issue. We have concluded that the existing emergency plan, supplemented with phone lists of individuals available December 31-January 2, is adequate. UCB is fortunate that (1) we have, as of mid-November, finished virtually all Y2K work, and have sufficient resources to finish the rest by year-end; (2) January 1, 2000, occurs at a very quiet time, with students not due back to classes for more than two weeks; (3) as an educational institution, we aren’t critically dependent on outside suppliers. Because of these factors, contingency planning can be decentralized and relatively informal. Q. What about Y2K efforts at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)? [Formerly Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL)] A lot of research work is done there by UCB faculty and staff, and a lot of UCB students work there. A. Although UC Berkeley has many c
