Five GSLIS students will join Associate Professor Terry Weech at BOBCATSSS, an international symposium under the auspices of EUCLID (European Association for Library and Information Education and Research) that brings together library and information science professionals, researchers, educators, and students. CAS student Nicole Helregel and master's students Emilia Marcyk, Erik Radio, Angela Stangl, and Sarah Yarrito will travel to Barcelona, Spain, for the symposium, which will be held January 29-31.
This year’s theme is “Library (R)evolution: Promoting Sustainable Information Practices” and invites participants to consider plans for long-term sustainability in the library, bearing in mind issues of environmental challenges, social inequalities, and the global economy. BOBCATSSS presents students with an opportunity to examine issues of librarianship at an international level.
Each of the GSLIS students will give a presentation:
"Teaching LIS Students Marketing: Ensuring Future Sustainable Access," Nicole Helregel and Terry Weech- "Not Yet Out of the Closet: How the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Publishing Industry in the United States Affects Public Library Collections," Emilia Marcyk
- "The Role of Academic Libraries in Cryptographic Literacy," Erik Radio and GSLIS alumnus Brian Balsamo (MS '13)
- "Academic Library Outreach: A Framework," Angela Stangl
- "Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How: Capturing Administrative Metadata in METS," Sarah Yarrito
Every year since 1993, LIS students from at least two European universities organize the symposium to address current issues in library and information science. Teams of students plan and manage the event as a part of their studies. BOBCATSSS is an acronym for the universities that initiated the symposium: Budapest, Oslo, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Tampere, Stuttgart, Szombathely, and Sheffield.