Departments and Principal Investigators with a lot of research equipment, particularly critical research equipment that must continue running over the rollover period, may experience loss of research data, research specimens, or other significant problems if they wait until Monday, January 3rd, to discover Y2K problems with research equipment. Department managers and Principal Investigators who want to minimize the impact of such Y2K problems should consider the following actions:

• Identify problems early.
  For research equipment and ongoing data acquisition systems, this means having someone check the equipment and systems early Saturday morning. (Extra staff from Physical Plant - Campus Services will be present to monitor overall building conditions, but won't be checking ever lab and certainly not every piece of equipment.) If no critical research equipment is left on during the rollover period, then a Saturday morning check probably isn't needed.

• Have resources on hand to deal with problems that are found.
  For research equipment, this means having equipment technicians and other specialists available to begin fixing problems on Saturday, January 2nd, should problems be identified.

Department managers and Principal Investigators who are not familiar with procedures for having employees be available for work on non-scheduled days should contact the campus Human Resources department for guidance.

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