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[Susan Brown]

Hello all,

I am serving on a committee that is planning our college's Web page.  We are 
currently struggling with whether the information provided on our Web page 
should be considered official.  The catalog comes up as an interesting 
example.  Because there are no printing costs, changes could be made as they 
are approved by the faculty.  But this has all sorts of complicated 
ramifications.  To avoid them, do we go ahead and make the changes to the 
Web version but maintain the paper as the official?  Do we make sure that 
the two are always in sync? Or do we focus our efforts on the Web version 
and make a once yearly paper edition of it, recognizing that we will have 
all sorts of new and unforseen discussions because of this?

I'd be interested to know if anyone is using their Web documents as the 
authority documents or if they are mere reflections of documents that exist 
in paper.

If the two versions (paper and Web) are identical, is the Web version also 
considered official?

Does anyone use a disclaimer refering the reader/surfer to the paper 
documents or a department for official information?

Thanks,
Susan Brown
Interdisciplinary Librarian
Colorado College