BOBCATSSS
What is BOBCATSSS?
BOBCATSSS is a yearly symposium under the auspices of EUCLID. It is arranged by LIS-students as a project, and it is always a common undertaking between students from a LIS-school from Eastern or Central Europe and students from a LIS school in Western Europe. The conferences attract every year more than 300 students and teachers from all over Europe. The first BOBCATSSS-conference took place in 1993.
Manual for organizers of BOBCATSSS
Next BOBCATSSS-conference
Previous BOBCATSSS-conference
Topics and venues of the BOBCATSSS conferences 1993-2004
BOBCATS OF THE YEAR
2008: Professor T. D. Wilson
The board of EUCLID has unanimously decided to award the prize BOBCATS of the year for 2008 to Professor Tom D. Wilson.
For decades, Professor Wilson has been vital in developing a European community for research and education in library and information science, being an outstanding researcher as well as an outstanding teacher and an entrepreneur. Professor Wilson is probably one of the world’s leading researchers in LIS in general and in information seeking behaviour in particular. He has generously shared his insights with colleagues and students all over Europe and contributed vitally in creating viable research communities and high quality education all over the continent. Professor Wilson is one of the founding fathers of EUCLID, and he played a vital role in the establishment of the ISIC-conference – probably the most important meeting place internationally for researchers in the field of information seeking behaviour. By founding and editing the web-based refereed journal Information Research (http://informationr.net/ir/), he is giving a decisive contribution to open access to high quality research within our field. As a scholar, Professor Wilson is characterized by being constantly on the move intellectually and by a fundamental openness to new perspectives and ideas, thus constantly bringing our field forwards, even after his formal retirement from academic positions.
If anyone deserves the title Mr. Library and Information Science in Europe, that person is Professor T. D. Wilson.
2007: Leif Lørring and Leif Kajberg
At the BOBCATSSS-conference in Prague from January 29 to January 31, Leif Lørring and Leif Kajberg from The Royal School of Library and Information Science were awarded the EUCLID’s BOBCAT of the year prize for outstanding contributions in promoting European library and information science. Lørring’s and Kajberg’s work with the European curriculum development project was particularly mentioned by the jury as one of the main reasons for its decision.
2001: Ruud Bruyns
Founding father of BOBCATSSS