A Small School Ventures Into the World of the CWIS
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Author(s): Bev Actis
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Presentation(s): CAUSE Conferences (Archives)
Abstract
By early 1993 Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, had just completed its campus network infrastructure. This wonderful new environment provided an institutional "integration" that enabled Kenyon to consider the exciting possibility of a campus-wide information system (or CWIS). We began our planning by investigating many other institutional experiences with their CWIS so that we could learn from them. In doing so, we identified what we consider the ten most important issues to be addressed in implementing a successful CWIS. Those issues included: needs and resource assessment; information system design; personnel and management; content issues; ownership; access issues; marketing strategies; support of information providers; policies and enforcement; and ongoing development. This paper covers Kenyon's experience in planning and implementing its CWIS during the past year and-a-half. Paper presented at CAUSE94, the full proceedings of which are available through this Library as PUB1094. This paper has been superceded by CEM9545.