CALL FOR PAPERS
Hum@n Beings and Information Specialists
Future Skills - Qualifications – Positioning
10th BOBCATSSS Symposium
Portoroz, Slovenia,
28th - 30th January 2002
held under the auspices of EUCLID: the European
Association for Library and Information Education and
Research
URL: www.bobcatsss.org
Human beings
Human beings are increasingly becoming part of the
information society, which is characterised by technical
progress, global networks and virtual reality. Human beings
are challenged to process more and more information in a
dynamic rapidity to manage everyday life and their jobs.
How does this development change the private and
professional life of human beings?
What kinds of support do they need and expect from
information specialists?
Information Specialists
In this process information specialists should play a deciding
role. They should assume responsibility for the architecture
and accessibility of the virtual world. They should help human
beings to get orientation in the cyberspace and they should
point out the chances of the global network for everybody.
Information specialists can fulfil these demands successfully.
They have to occupy acknowledged and influential positions
in companies, in administration, in libraries - in the
information world in general.
The 10th BOBCATSSS Symposium should focus the
attention on human beings in the information society - their
problems and their challenges. These should be the
background for discussions about future skills, qualifications
and positioning of information specialists.
Further topics with regard to information specialists may be,
but are not limited to:
Future Skills
Internetengineer, screen designer and webmaster - new
jobs for information specialists?
Teacher,psychologist, coach, and global player – new
roles and requirements
The ideal information specialist – new visions
Qualifications
Qualificationsof information specialists in the knowledge
society
Stayup-to-date to new information tools and channels
Lifelonglearning – demands and examples on further
vocational education for information specialists
Interculturalcompetencies - international education for
information specialists
Positioning
Legalstandards for job outlines of information specialists?
Promotionfor the important role and the relevant services
of information specialists
The participation of information specialists in the
development of a democratic information and knowledge
society
Informationspecialists as architects of the virtual reality
and international networks
BOCATSSS Award
The 10th anniversary of BOBCATSSS is the right occasion to
launch a new award. This award shall motivate students to
present a paper or to offer a workshop at the BOBCATSSS
2002 Symposium. The students’ presentations should help to
point out the philosophy of BOBCATSSS: They should
stimulate discussions, communication, interaction, and
international exchange of ideas and visions with regard to the
topics.
BOBCATSSS History
BOBCATSSS stands for a series of annual European
symposiums in the field of library and information education
and research. The name is an acronym, for city names of
related universities from the establishing period: Budapest,
Oslo, Barcelna, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Tampere,
Stuttgart, Szombately, Sheffield. Since then further members
have joined the network. Every year two of these universities
of different European countries cooperate in organising the
BOBCATSSS Symposium. It’s exceptional that teams of
students plan and carry out both the contents and the
management of these symposiums as a part of their studies.
Slovenia and Portorož
Slovenia is a country with approximately 2 million inhabitants.
It is embedded into the mountain corner between Austria,
Italy, Hungary, Croatia and the Adriatic Sea
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country with seacoast has got to have its splendid beach
resort and Portorož is Slovenia’s very own. The “Port of
Rose” is an essentially important town of high rise hotels,
restaurants, bars, travel agencies, shops and discos … it can
be a very exciting place to spend your time. Portorož also
offers a lot of possibilities to go sightseeing. Besides the
Maritime Museum Collection at the Villa San Marco the
outdoor sculpture garden Forma Viva atop the Seča with
over 100 works of art carved in stone may be an object of
interest. The BOBCATSSS 2002 Symposium takes place at
the Portorož Auditorium ( http://www.avditorij-portoroz.si/
). It is a cultural, congress and promotion centre which offers
modern multi-media equipment. As you can see Portorož not
only presents a beautiful landscape but also many
possibilities to organise your free time!
How to submit a paper
If you wish to attend at the 10th BOBCATSSS Symposium
with a presentation, please send the title and abstract (200
words English, MS-Word file) together with the
preregistration to:
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You may also use the postal address:
FH Sttuttgart Hochschule für Bibliotheks- und
Informationwesen
-BOBCATSSS Büro-
Wolframestrasse 32
D- 70191 Stuttgart
Germany
or
Univerza v Ljubljani
Filozofska fakulteta
Oddelek za bibliotekarstvo
Aškerčeva 2,
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
For easier understanding and classification of the abstract
we ask you to inform us about research and methods used to
prepare the paper. Accepted papers will be published in the
symposium proceedings before the symposium. They have
to be written in English and must not exceed the maximum of
10 pages( 3000 - 4000 words). Papers for the proceedings
that have not been submitted before the deadline of
December 15th cannot be published.
Guidlines for papers:
To facilitate our work please write or save the text in MS-
Word file.
Paper format: A4
Typefce: Times New Roman, 12 pt.
Article headline: 14 pt.
Author's name, institution and country: Italic, 12 pt
Margins: Left: 4 cm, right:2 cm, top and bottom: 3cm.
Spacing: Single
Deadlines
Abstracts to be submitted before
September 15, 2001
Notification of acceptance
October 15, 2001
Papers for proceedings
December 15, 2001
Ian Johnson
RGU extension 3902
