Report on the BOBCATSSS 2025 Conference – Artificial Intelligence in Library and Information Science

Erzsébet Dani is an associate university professor at the University of Debrecen, Hungary, who teaches several courses in Library and Information Science, Culture, and Literature. She graduated from Eszterházy Károly College, at Eötvös Lóránd University, and was awarded her PhD degree in Eötvös Loránd University Doctoral Program for Literature and Cultural Studies (2008). She got her habilitation degree (sociology, 2016) at the University of Debrecen. She is the Head of the Department of Library and Information Science and the Director of the Bács-Kiskun County Library. Her general research interests are reading research/digital reading narratives, dissemination of scientific results, cultural identity, and institutional history in the Carpathian Basin. She has two scientific monographs and several published studies.

Dóra Szabó is a teaching assistant at the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Debrecen (Hungary). She graduated in 2020 as a German language and culture teacher and Library and Information Science teacher. She is currently a researcher in the following projects; CHERD-Hungary, MTA-DE Parent-Teacher Cooperation Research Group, HERA Hungarian Association of Researchers in Education, and Associate Editor of the Central European Journal of Educational Research and “Pedagógusképzés” journal. Member of the BOBCATSSS Association Board (European Association for Library and Information Science Education and Research). She is also active in Erasmus+ and summer university programs. Her research interests are twofold; on the one hand, she focuses on future teachers and their digital attitudes, digital literacies and media and information literacy, and educational influencers, and on the other hand, she focuses on libraries, literacy education, and book influencers.