Three days of Pharos orientation, Pharos server training and discussion with colleagues from CSU libraries is scheduled for May 25 -27 on the campus of the California State University Fullerton.

System Administration Session
May 25   10:00 - 5:00  May 26   8:30 - 12:00

Tuesday and Wednesday morning's training session is intended for the System Administrator for the Pharos Server. An overview of the Pharos software suite will be included as well as an overview of basic NT Server maintenance issues. Members of the Pharos Task Force for Systems Design and Implementation will be available during the day and half of this orientation.

User Services Session
May 26   1:00 PM - 4:00 PM  May 27   8:30 AM - 4:00 PM

Beginning at 1:00 PM Wednesday and continuing through Thursday afternoon there will be an orientation session intended for  user services personnel. The person or persons who have an interest in integrating the Pharos Server with the library's existing web site, customizing the Pharos Server for the library and learning more about using Pharos in the library's instructional and user service programs are invited to this session. Members of the Pharos User Services Task Force will be available during this session.

Travel expenses:

The UIAS Project will cover the cost of one person from each CSU library to attend theSystem Administration and  the User Services Sessions. For example, one person might attend the System Administration Session on Tuesday and Wednesday, while a different person would attend the User Services Session Wednesday and Thursday. In this case the UIAS Project would reimburse the travel expenses for both of these attendees. The facility being provided by Cal State Fullerton Library can accommodate additional participants, but the library will have to cover the travel expenses for any additional attendees.

Please send the name, title and e-mail address for the library representatives that will be attending  the Systems AdministrationSession and/orUser Services Session to:  Marvin Pollard,  mpollard@calstate.edu  Please indicate which representative(s) - one per session - should be reimbursed for their travel by the UIAS project.

For those persons who need to stay overnight, please contact the Fullerton Marriott at California State University, 800 228-9290 at http://marriotthotels.com/LAXFL/ to make a reservation. To get the group/government rate mention that the reservation is for the California State University - Chancellor's Office.  Directions to the Marriott and the campus are available at the Marriott web site. Rooms are being held for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday [May 24-26] nights, until May 10, 1999 at the group rate of $75 a night.

Please contact Sandy Matthews,  smatthews@calstate.edu, at the Chancellor's Office if you have questions about your travel arrangements. A Project Authorization must be completed prior to the travel. This form is available at ProjectAuth.shtml

A detailed agenda for the training/orientation sessions will be posted in the coming weeks.

Plans are being made now for a Pharos orientation session in August for the Interlibrary Loan/ Document Delivery heads.

Please make your travel plans now to take advantage of these Pharos training/orientation sessions.