Dear Colleague,

 My name is Ron Lauze from Jefferson Lab, and if you attended the 1996
 Operations Workshop held at Jefferson Lab in Virginia, we may have already
 met.  I'm also involved with the 1998 Workshop on Accelerator Operations,
 which will be held in Vancouver in May.  Part of my involvement includes
 putting together a session to discuss maintenance.  Speakers from four labs
 (Fermi, Jefferson Lab, Northrop Grumman, and CERN) have already agreed to
 give talks on maintenance.  I'm now looking for people willing to
 participate in a poster session explaining how maintenance is dealt with at
 the individual labs.  We would like to have posters from as many of the
 attending Labs as possible.

 I am contacting you to ask for your help for one of two reasons:

   1) I know that you are involved with maintenance at your lab and it 
      would be great if you could prepare a poster, or

   2) You have signed up for the workshop, and although you may not be 
      directly involved with maintenance, we would greatly appreciate 
      having your lab participate in the poster session (i.e., could you
      please direct this inquiry to the appropriate person).


 General workshop information is available on the workshop web site at

                  http://www.triumf.ca/wao98/

 Specific details concerning poster sessions and poster preparation are
 available at

         http://www.triumf.ca/wao98/format.html#posters 
 
 Two linked documents, the Poster Request Letter and the Suggested Poster
 Format (both in Acrobat .pdf format), provide the necessary information.

    NOTE: These two documents are in Acrobat .pdf format and require the
    Adobe Acrobat Reader software for viewing.  If you do not already have 
    a copy of this free software available on your computer, you can download 
    if from  http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html

 I'll close by saying that the '96 Workshop was a great success, and with
 your help, the '98 Workshop will be even better.  Please help by signing up
 for a poster session.

 I look forward to hearing from you.


 Ron Lauze
 MCC Operations Group Leader
 Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
 MailStop 85a, Room 102C, Building 85, 12000 Jefferson Avenue,
 Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
 Telephone: 757-269-7186
 FAX:       757-269-7049
 E-mail:    lauze@cebaf.gov