Symposium takes place:

Campus of Charles University
U Krize 8
Praha 5 - Jinonice
158 00

Public transport: subway „B“ (yellow line), station Jinonice

BOBCATSSS is an association of European universities in the field of Library and Information Science, founded by universities from Budapest, Oslo, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Tampere, Stuttgart, Szombately, Sheffield. Every year it is organized, managed and filled with content by students from an Eastern and Western European university.
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, Szombately, Sheffield. During the last five years further members from Borås, Riga, Kharkiv, Moscow, Tallinn, Torun, Warsaw, Sofia, Ljubljana, Krakow, Bratislava and Budapest have joined the network.

1. Budapest 1993
Topic: The Role of Libraries Today, Tomorrow and Beyond
Organization: Hogeschool van Amsterdam

2. Budapest 1994
Topic: The Future of Librarianship
Organization: Hogeschool van Amsterdam

3. Budapest 1995
Topic: Marketing and Development of New Information Products and Services in Europe
Organization: Hogeschool van Amsterdam

4. Budapest 1996
Topic: Quality of Information Services
Organization: Hogeschool van Amsterdam

5. Budapest 1997
Topic: New Book Economy / International Symposium Marketing and Developing New Information Products and Services in Europe
Organization: Hogeschool van Amsterdam

6. Budapest 1998
Topic: Shaping the Knowledge Society
Organization: Royal School of Librarianship, Copenhagen

7. Bratislava 1999
Topic: Learning Society - Learning Organization - Lifelong Learning
Organization: University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt and University of Bratislava

8. Krakow 2000
Topic: Intellectual Property versus The Right to Knowledge?
Organization: Royal School of Librarianship, Copenhagen

9. Vilnius 2001
Topic: Knowledge, Information and Democracy in the Open Society: the Role of the Library and Information Sector
Organization: Oslo University College JBI Faculty, Vilnius University

10. Portoroz 2002
Topic: Hum@n Beings and Information Specialists. Future Skills, Qualifications, Positioning
Organization: Filozofska fakulteta - Oddelek za bibliotekarstvo Ljubljana, University of Applied Sciences, Stuttgart

11. Torun 2003
Topic: Information Policy and the European Union
Organization: Universitas Nicolai Copernici Torun, Hogeschool van Amsterdam

12. Riga 2004
Topic: Library and Information in Multicultural Societies
Organization: University College of Borås, University of Latvia

13. Budapest 2005
Topic: Librarianship in the information age
Organization: Eötvös Lor?nd University, Budapest, Oslo University College

14. Tallinn 2006
Topic: Information, Innovation, Responsibility: Information Professional in the Network Society
Organization: Tallinn University, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen