[Sigiii-l] FW: Call for Papers: 16th BOBCATSSS 28-30 Jan 2008

[i.m.johnson at rgu.ac.uk]

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We are pleased to announce the16th 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 <http://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.

bobcatsss. get informed.

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:
info at bobcatsss2008.org
Fachhochschule Postdam, Fachbereich Informationswissenschaften,
BOBCATSSS team, Postfach 60 06 08, 14406 Potsdam / Germany, E-Mail:
info at bobcatsss2008.org        
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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
<http://www.bobcatsss2008.org/> . The abstract should be sent by 15 May
2007 to the following address:

papers at bobcatsss2008.org

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