Get involved with it, if you can. If your institution hasn t started such a process, the library can initiate one. It s a late start, but a start nonetheless. Library Software and Data Libraries acquire data, software, and computing and database services from many different vendors and organizations. You need to determine if their products are certified as Year 2000 compliant.
Many vendors have a statement of compliance on their web sites.
If you need more information than the web statement provides, or if you still have concerns, contact your vendors and ask questions. You may wish to request a letter that certifies compliance from your vendors. OCLC will be happy to supply member libraries with letters of compliance. Don t forget your third party software used for acquisitions, serials management, bibliographic record management, labels, and any other production software you use in concert with your library catalog and reference databases. If you need to use it in the year 2000, you need to make sure it will function properly.