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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Improving Quality of Life Through
Information - an international information science symposium BOBCATSSS 2017 held in Tampere</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 25th BOBCATSSS symposium will be held in Tampere
from January 25th to 27, 2017. The theme for the first BOBCATSSS symposium held in the Nordic countries will be
</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Improving Quality of Life Through Information</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.
The theme is divided into three subthemes: Information, Libraries, and Interactive media. The keynote speakers of the symposium are Carol Tenopir for Information, Guus van den Brekel for Interactive media and Josie Billington for Libraries. The program covers
nearly a hundred interesting presentations as papers, posters and workshops around the theme. The topics of the approved presentations can be found at http://bobcatsss2017.com/program/.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The program also includes social program such as
the Gala Dinner that is held at the Finlayson Palace. The symposium is aimed for students and professionals of the information field. The early cat tickets with a reduced price are still available. More information about the event can found at http://bobcatsss2017.com/
and in social media #bobcatsss2017.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is BOBCATSSS?</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BOBCATSSS is an international symposium of library
and information students and professionals. It is held annually in a European university and is organised by students. BOBCATSSS is formed by the first letters of the cities whose universities were founding the conference in 1993: Budapest, Oslo, Barcelona,
Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Tampere, Stuttgart, Szombathely and Sheffield. BOBCATSSS 2017 is organized in collaboration with students from University of Tampere, Finland, Oslo and Akershus University College, Norway and Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands.
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