Category: Who are we?

Call for Organizers and Contributors 2025-2026

The BOBCATSSS Board invites European LIS departments to submit applications to be the main organizers of the BOBCATSSS 2025 and 2026 conferences. 

Applications can be submitted between July 17, 2023 and November 30, 2023. 

The call for co-organizers and other contributions is continuous. Other contributions may be as simple as an open offer to assist. All offers to be involved and assist are greatly appreciated. 

Selection of the main organizer for the 2025 conference will be made by the Board before or by December 15, 2023. Selection of the main organizer for the 2026 conference will be made before or by March 15, 2024.

Link to the application form

Questions? Please contact the board members.

Call for organizers and contributors

The Association invites bids from institutions to organize BOBCATSSS 2023. The call for main organizers takes place during September 2020-February 2021.

The related call for co-organizers and other contributions is continuous.

All decisions will be made by the BOBCATSSS Association board. The main organizer decision for 2023 BOBCATSSS will be made during March 2021 and will be informed to all applicants.

Link to the application form

Bobcatsss ?

BOBCATSSS is an annual symposium in the field of library and information science. It is a tradition which has been passed on from one country to another since 1993. It is held under the auspices of EUCLID (European Association for Library and Information Education and Research) and is organized by students from at least two universities.

Bobcatsss is created for students, professors, employees and professionals of libraries and information field.

In the name ‘BOBCATSSS’, each letter stands for the first letter of the city that initiated a symposium in 1993:

Budapest
Oslo
Barcelona
Copenhagen
Amsterdam
Tampere
Stuttgart
Szombathely
Sheffield