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Fifth international BOBCATSSS symposium in Budapest
under the auspices of Council of Europe and EUCLID
January 27-30, 1997
Call for papers and participation
Amsterdam,
September 7th, 1996
Dear Mr/Ms,
BOBCATSSS(1) is now organizing the fifth international BOBCATSSS symposium
under the auspices of Council of Europe and EUCLID(2). This will take place
in Budapest at January 27-30, 1997. The location is the National Szechenyi
Library of Budapest. The symposium is intended for information
professionals, librarians, booksellers, publishers, graduate students in
information studies and those who are interested in the subject.
This first letter is a call for papers and participation.
The theme of the 5th symposium is:
NEW BOOK ECONOMY
The programme will include the following topics and workshops:
Topic 1. Changing needs and demands:
* changes in information behaviour (customers);
* changes in the market (general, educational, professional and scientific);
* developments in marketing (from spin-off to real structured marketing).
Topic 2. Changing supply of information:
* from print to electronic publishing;
* changes in the intermediating process;
* future preservation and access of information products;
* control of quality of information.
Topic 3. Changing structure of the information sector:
* from traditional patterns to the disappearing of boundaries
(opportunities and threats);
* new roles for publishers, bookshops, libraries;
* the importance of grey literature
* the future roles of subscription agents.
Topic 4. Changes in employment and job opportunities:
* developments within existing organisations of the information branche;
* the rise of new organisations;
* changes in existing positions, the creation of new positions within
publishing firms, bookshops and library organisations;
* in-service training and re-education of employees;
* consequenses for the curricula of library and information education.
Topic 5. The socio-economic impact of new information products and services:
* cultural changes in modern society;
* economic values; price of information: end products/services and
semi-manufactured products;
* issues of legislation (national/international).
These topics will be discussed in plenary sessions and workshops.
Participation
BOBCATSSS invites professionals and students to participate in the
symposium and/or workshops. Participants are invited to present papers
about every topic.
Contributed papers will be allotted 20-25 minutes, including discussion.
Paper submissions must include the following data:
* title of presentation;
* author(s) name including title/degree and position/job;
* institutional affiliation(s);
* mailing address;
* an abstract (150-250 words).
The organisation committee is responsable for the selection of the papers.
The papers of the plenary sessions and workshops will be published in July
1997.
Contribution
The registration fee is 150 Dutch guilders (students Dfl 75,-). This fee
includes the participation in the symposium, the reception, buffet and
publication of the proceedings. A visit to an opera and some excursions on
the fourth day of the symposium, January 30, will be arranged because of
the fifth anniversary of the BOBCATSSS-symposium.
The symposium will be sponsored by BOBCATSSS and other profit and non
profit organisations.
Registration
Please complete the included registration form if you wish to present a
paper about one of the topics mentioned above or if you want to participate.
It is also possible to contact or send a fax to the coordinator of the
symposium:
Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics & Information,
att. dr. Ruud Bruyns,
Post Box 10895,
1001 EW Amsterdam
The Netherlands.
tel. +31-(0)20-5552361;
fax +31-(0)20-5552315
email [log in to unmask]
WWW: http://www.xs4all.nl/~eef/BOBCATSSS/
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(1) BOBCATSSS is a corporation of a number of European educational
institutes in the field of Library and/or Information sciences.
The members are: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Budapest, Copenhagen, Kharkiv,
Moscow, Oslo, Sheffield, Sofia, Stuttgart, Szombathely, Tallinn and Tampere.
(2) EUCLID stands for European Association for Library and Information
Education and Research.
