About BOBCATSSS
BOBCATSSS is an annual symposium organised by students of universities with studies in Library and Information Sciences. The symposium was first held in Budapest in 1993 and the 2011 symposium will be the eighth BOBCATSSS symposium held in Hungary and nineteenth symposium in general.
The name comes from an acronym from the first letters of the nine cities of the universities that initiated the BOBCATSSS symposium in 1993: Budapest, Oslo, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Tampere, Stuttgart, Szombathely and Sheffield.
After 1993, members from the universities of Borås, Riga, Kharkiv, Moscow, Tallinn, Torun, Warsaw, Sofia, Ljubljana, Krakow, Bratislava, Prague, Osjiek, Zadar, Berlin and Potsdam also joined the network. In total, they represent twenty-five schools in nineteen countries all over Europe.
BOBCATSSS is under the auspices of EUCLID and tries to bring a dialogue between information specialists, employees of information and library departments, teachers and researchers in information and library sciences and tomorrow’s professionals. The speeches and papers tackle subjects about the changes, obstacles and solutions in the library sector now and in the near future.
Students from at least two of the BOBCATSSS universities organise the symposium for any given year. There is always at least one university from both Eastern Europe and Western Europe represented in the group designated for organising BOBCATSSS. These students are responsible for every aspect of arranging the conference, from marketing and financing to logistics and abstract and paper management. The students are often able to integrate the work with BOBCATSSS as a part o f their studies, as a course part of the curriculum.
The eighteenth BOBCATSSS symposium took place in Parma from January 25th - January 27th, 2010. The general topic of the conference was: BRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE - LIBRARIES PROVIDING ACCESS FOR ALL?
The symposium was jointly organised by students and teachers of the University of Parma (Italy), the Manchester Metropolitan University (GB) and the Liverpool John Moores University (GB).
The 2011 conference
In 2011, the conference will be taking place in Szombathely, Hungary from January 31st to February 2nd. It is a cooperation between a team of students and teachers from Szombathely, Eisenstadt (Austria) and Oslo (Norway). The general topic will be: FINDING NEW WAYS.
Previous conferences
- 2010 Parma, Italy Bridging the digital divide: libraries providing access for all?
University of Parma, Italy and Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Website - 2009 Porto, Portugal Challenges for the new information professional
University of Tampere, Finland and University of Porto, Portugal. Website - 2008 Zadar, Croatia Providing access to information for everyone
Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, University of Osijek, Croatia, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany and University of Zadar, Croatia. Website | Papers | On Flickr - 2007 Prague, Czech Republic Marketing of Information Services
Charles University, Czech Republic, Media University Stuttgart, Germany and University of Applied Sciences Konstanz, Germany. Website - 2006 Tallinn, Estonia Information, Innovation, Responsibility: Information professional in the Network Society
Tallinn University, Estonia and Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark - 2005 Budapest, Hungary Librarianship in the information age
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest and Oslo University College, Norway - 2004 Riga, Latvia Library and Information in Multicultural Societies
University College of Borås, Sweden and University of Latvia. Website - 2003 Torun, Poland Information Policy and the European Union
Universitas Nicolai Copernici Torun, Poland and Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Netherlands - 2002 Portoroz, Slovenia Hum@n Beings and Information Specialists. Future Skills, Qualifications, Positioning
Filozofska fakulteta - Oddelek za bibliotekarstvo Ljubljana, Slovenia and University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart, Germany - 2001 Vilnius, Lithuania Knowledge, Information and Democracy in the Open Society: the Role of the Library and Information Sector
Oslo University College, Norway and Vilnius University, Lithuania - 2000 Krakow, Poland Intellectual Property versus The Right to Knowledge?
Royal School of Librarianship, Denmark - 1999 Bratislava, Slovakia Learning Society - Learning Organisation - Lifelong Learning
University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart, Germany, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, Germany and University of Bratislava, Slovakia - 1998 Budapest, Hungary Shaping the Knowledge Society
Royal School of Librarianship, Denmark - 1997 Budapest Hungary New Book Economy / International Symposium Marketing and Developing New Information Products and Services in Europe
Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Netherlands. Website - 1996 Budapest, Hungary Quality of Information Services
Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Netherlands. Website - 1995 Budapest, Hungary Marketing and Development of New Information Products and Services in Europe
Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Netherlands - 1994 Budapest, Hungary The Future of Librarianship
Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Netherlands - 1993 Budapest, Hungary The Role of Libraries Today, Tomorrow and Beyond
Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Netherlands
