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Considering degradation and sexuality in its quest of reviving the readers need for representation, this paper challenges the possibilities of textual regeneration, problematizing the narrative practice as a way of voicing the multiple interfaces of the human body. Namely, through motifs like: the masturbating child, incest, sexual freedom of the mentally ill and the manipulator, this study explores the overlappings entailed in some of Ian McEwan's novels, such as: Cement Garden, Amsterdam, On Chesil Beach, The Confort of Strangers and Atonement. Furthermore, the paper will talk about sexuality and degradation using a series of concepts as the image that encrypts the directions of limit. Lastly, this paper will present the process of limit including the evolution of the author's narrative style and the way he treats schizoid universes through solutions such as degradation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BOBCATSSS Symposium is held annually by and for students of library and information science schools of different European universities and it takes place under the auspices of EUCLID (European Association for Library and Information Education and Research). In 2012, BOBCATSSS was organized by students of three universities: University of Amsterdam, Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen (Netherlands) and Stuttgart Media University (Germany). Ideas drawn from the ceremony were related to Internet technology dependence, the negative impact on education, the importance of networks in how information becomes knowledge, media universities, what is socialization, media privacy. In one section of the symposium, the author of the article presented with Ane Landøy from the University of Bergen Library, the paper What challenges are library leaders facing? Ane Landøy is a PhDc at Royal School of Library and Information Science in Copenhagen and she has conducted qualitative research on issues facing the leaders of libraries in Norway. Results were confronted with the academic community expectations regarding library services, research conducted by the author at the Transylvania University of Brasov. The article, in fact a report on the event, summerizes briefly the main works and papers that have attracted interest, enough to keep the attention of the audience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reflections on the moral and legal status of the animal, its cognitive abilities, its differences, essential or not, with humans, have nourished human thinking since ancient times; source of debate also today are a lot of questions: can we kill animals, we can eat them, we can use them in our activity, both in the field and in laboratories, do animals have rights, are they subjects of law? Ever since Roman law, the animal was considered from legal point of view, considering only the faculty of man's appropriation as a subject of law; the main status of animal remains that of reification, their interests being most often ignored for the benefit of humans' interests. This status embraced by doctrine, praised legally throughout the different civilizations and which has lasted until today, could be maintained by virtue of the „natural" power of human domination exercised over the rest of living beings also through the Cartesian animal-machine theory, which was translated into law by the animal-thing theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Held under the aegis the European Association for Library and Information Education and Research (EUCLID), BOBCATSSS conference is organized annually by students of European universities. The organizing universities have to ensure that the Departments of Library and Information Science propose each year the topics for discussion. In 1993, BOBCATSSS held its 1st annual conference series. At its 20th anniversary in January 2012, the organization task went to students from 3 universities of applied sciences, namely University of Amsterdam (Netherlands), Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen (Netherlands) and Stuttgart Media University (Germany). The 2012 conference focused on Information in e-motion. Romania was represented by PhD Angela Repanovici from Transylvania University of Brasov who lectured on What Challenges are Library Leaders Facing? The paper has been written in collaboration with Ane Landøy from Royal School of Information Science in Copenhagen. From the international master program Digital Library Learning, there have been, along with the author of the article, five other colleagues from five different countries. After an introduction to the symposium BOBCATASS 2012, the author presents the work carried out during the master program and presented at the conference: the poster When academia goes "E", which illustrates the results of a survey conducted at the University Library of Tromsø (Norway), a questionnaire which points to the revolutionary politics of this library, namely purchasing of books in electronic format only. The participants, professionals and students in the field of information management contributed to the programme on other subtopics of the conference as well: "E-media in Motion", "My Information", "Organisations 2.0" and "Access to Public Information. The article deals with current topics in a friendly and accessible manner even to the unfamiliar public. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]