Administrative Manual - 101 Laboratory Overview
101.06 User Liason Office
- PURPOSE
Scientists from over a hundred institutions and a variety of cultures and traditions perform experiments at Jefferson Lab. User Liaison (UL) facilitates the lab's scientific program by maintaining effective channels of communication between JLab staff, its User community, and its associated scientists and engineers from around the world. User Liaison provides solutions to the Users needs and assists the Users with their use of the lab's facilities. User Liaison also serves the lab community at large through the management of the lab's internal and external web presence and a variety of multimedia services.
- USER SERVICES
- Facilitate the lab's experimental program by suggesting the review of User proposals and beam requests, tracking User performance metrics, supporting experiment scheduling process, and serving as an information resource to the User community.
- Provide User processing, badging, EH&S training, and integration into the laboratory and local communities.
- Facilitate on and off site meetings of the lab's Program Advisory Committee (PAC), the JLab Users Group, and the Users Group Board of Directors.
- Manage and maintain the User information and experiment databases.
- Provide office space and support for Users during their stay at the lab.
- Manage and administer the lab's foreign visitor and domestic student insurance programs.
- AT-LARGE SERVICES
- Manage and maintain the content of the lab's web site, including its information architecture and design; responsible for material posted to the lab's home page and its directories, which reside on the lab's main web servers.
- Provide a web development team that serves as the lab's primary center of expertise and support for the web usage, publishing, and training.
- Provide visual media services including digital and analog photography, audio visual support, video production, video conferencing, presentation graphics, trade show displays, and web design.