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We are pleased to announce the 16th BOBCATSSS Symposium, 28-30 Jan 2008, 
Zadar, Croatia. 

Contributions in any form - workshop, paper, poster presentation - are 
welcome. The main theme for 2008 is "Providing Access to Information for 
Everyone". 

Thinking, you would like to be part of this innovative congress? Just 
offer a contribution! We are looking forward to your informative concepts 
until 15 May 2007.

For further information and guidelines for the abstracts please visit our 
website: www.bobcatsss2008.org. There you will also find a printable 
version of the Call for Papers as well as flyers and a poster that can be 
handed out to students, colleagues or anyone interested.

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BOBCATSSS 2008 Organisation Team
Zadar / Osijek / Berlin / Potsdam             
Contact: 
University of Zadar, Department of Library and Information Science, 
BOBCATSSS team, Ul. dr. F. Tudjmana 24i, 23 000 Zadar / Croatia, E-Mail: 
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Fachhochschule Postdam, Fachbereich Informationswissenschaften, BOBCATSSS 
team, Postfach 60 06 08, 14406 Potsdam / Germany, E-Mail: 
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Call for papers
16th Symposium BOBCATSSS 2008 (Zadar, Croatia)
Theme: Providing Access to Information for Everyone
Access to information is vital for the personal and social growth of every 
individual. However, many people are facing barriers in accessing 
information, whether they are technical issues - like infrastructure, 
standards or the usability of services; political and legal issues – like 
copyright or censorship; social issues – like information literacy or 
information behaviour of different user groups; or economical issues – 
like cost of information. The goal of the BOBCATSSS 2008 symposium is to 
explore access to information for everybody from the technical, political 
and legal, social and economical point of view. The symposium would like 
to identify the existing barriers in accessing information and to offer an 
overview of new concepts, ideas and examples of good practice in order to 
raise awareness and achieve possible solutions. Invited are contributions 
in a form of a paper, workshop or a poster covering the following topics:

Technical aspects:
Infrastructures, standards and interoperability for universal access to 
information 
Open access supported by open source 
Digital repositories and document server (long term preservation and 
access) 
Usability, service and interface design 
 

Political aspects:
Repression via information - withdrawal/censorship 
Bills and laws for LIS - an international composition 
Copyright aspect of open access and open source initiative 
Role of national/regional/local government in the development of 
information institutions 
 

Social aspects:
Digital divide 
Information professionals in the information society 
Information literacy (a holistic approach) 
Information ethics 
Information behavior of different users groups 
 

Economical aspects:
Cost of information 
Cost of electronic resources 
Licensing agreements 
Digital library costs 
 

The target group are students. We are especially inviting workshop 
contributions or papers given by students or teams of students and 
teachers. For further information and guidelines for the abstracts please 
visit our website: www.bobcatsss2008.org. The abstract should be sent by 
15 May 2007 to the following address:

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For up to date information on forthcoming workshops and free visits
please see the online ARLIS/UK & Ireland Events Calendar 2007 at
http://www.arlis.org.uk/even/