Lawrence University World Wide Web Steering Committee

At its meeting on January 24, 1996, the World Wide Web Steering Committee agreed to assume that Lawrence can appropriately continue to maintain and support two World Wide Web sites, one staffed and managed under auspices of the library in consultation with the Campus-Wide Information System Advisory Committee and the other staffed and managed by the Office of Public Affairs. These two sites are understood to have differing objectives and, to some extent, differing audiences; they are, however, both to be governed by the following expressions of mission and vision and to be managed in order to assure a coordinated presence on the World Wide Web for Lawrence University-one benefiting from the synergy of the separate sites and reflecting compatibility of presentation and content.

World Wide Web Mission Statement

Through the creation and maintenance of electronic information servers accessible on campus networks and over the Internet, Lawrence University seeks to exploit contemporary technology to

• Improve its programs of teaching and leaming by taking advantage of new media and increasing opportunities for independent discovery and mastery
• Stimulate the personal and intellectual growth of its members, especially their curiosity and their sense of the breadth of knowledge and the diversity of opinion
• Publish its distinctive collections and other scholarly and esthetic resources in an exciting and creative way
• Facilitate communication and heighten the college's sense of community
• Improve the management of the college
• Promote the reputation of the college and make evident the quality of its programs and the accomplishments of its people.

World Wide Web
Vision Statement

Lawrence's World Wide Web presence should be viewed as a lever with which we can push the institution forward on several fronts.

Its energizing effect as a pedagogical tool and spectacular reach as a research tool make it an effective means to mitigate the isolating effect of Lawrence's location and the narrowing effect of Lawrence's homogeneity. It multiples the size of our library, expands our faculty, takes us places we've never been.

Its comparatively low cost and high potential impact as a communications vehicle make it an ideal vehicle with which to improve awareness of the college on the part of those who do not know us and to strengthen our affiliations with those who do know us.

A limited resource should be consumed wisely. Thus while a great many initiatives may reasonably be said to advance the ends laid down above, those efforts which tend most to strengthen us where we are weakest ought to command our attention first. Our communications ought to distinguish us sharply from our peers. Our assembly of pedagogical resources ought to fill gaps in our course of study, library, teaching and cultural resources.

World Wide Web Steering Committee
Continuing Agenda

In general, the work of the committee will be subsumed under the following broad headings

• Hear reports from those responsible for www.lawrence.edu and cwis.lawrence.edu on recent developments and projected changes related to those Web sites.
• Assess the quality and scope of Lawrence's web-related publications and activities.
• Originate, stimulate, review, and assign priorities to proposals for the further development of Lawrence's World Wide Web presence and the uses of Web technology for pedagogy and communication.
• Advocate the appropriation of sufficient resources to encourage and support the deployment and use of Web technology in furtherance of the college's mission.
• Recommend to appropriate bodies at Lawrence, policies and procedures related to Web publishing and uses of the Web by members of the Lawrence community.
• Review complaints related to inappropriate use of the Web by members of the Lawrence community and take appropriate remedial action where necessary.

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