Bridging the digital divide: libraries providing access for all?

by abevan on 2 July, 2009

The 18th Bobcatsss symposium will be held in Parma on January 25-26-27 2010. The topic is Bridging the digital divide: libraries providing access for all?
Bobcatsss is an annual conference organized by and for students in librarianship and information science coming from Europe and countries all over the world: This year the organizers are the universities of Parma and Manchester, in collaboration with those of Milan and Liverpool.
Until the 15th of September 2009 it is possible to send contributions in the form of workshops, paper or poster. The target audience is students, but everyone is welcome. The received abstracts will be evaluated and participants will be contacted by the end of October.
For more information about the meeting, registration, contributions and so on, is available at the e-mail address, and on the website.

The name BOBCATSSS is an acronym and describes the university network. The letters stand for the first letters of the cities of the universities that initiated the BOBCATSSS symposium in 1993: Budapest, Oslo, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Tampere, Stuttgart, Szombathely and Sheffield. During the last years further members from Borås, Riga, Kharkiv, Moscow, Tallinn, Toru, Warsaw, Sofia, Ljubljana, Krak. This years conference is co-organised by the University of Parma, Italy & Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
It is unique that teams of students, supervised by academics, plan and realise both the content and the management of the symposium as a part of their studies. The students are responsible for every aspect of arranging the conference, from marketing and financing to logistics and abstract and paper management. Due to this they profit a lot by border crossing and teamwork with other European countries.