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We are excited to announce that registration is now open to for the second face-to-face Mashcat event in North America, which be held on January 24th, 2017, at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. We invite you to view the schedule for the day as well as register at http://www.mashcat.info/2017-event/. We have a strict limit on the number of participants who can attend in person, so register early! The event will also be streamed as a free webinar, so if you cannot attend in person, registration for the webinar will open in January. If you run into any issues with registering, you can email gmcharlt AT gmail.com. Not sure what Mashcat is? "Mashcat" was originally an event in the UK in 2012 which was aimed at bringing together people working on the IT systems side of libraries with those working in cataloguing and metadata. Nowadays, Mashcat is a loose group of metadata specialists, cataloguers, developers and anyone else with an interest in how metadata in and around libraries can be created, manipulated, used and re-used by computers and software. The aim is to work together and bridge the communications gap that has sometimes gotten in the way of building the best tools we possibly can to manage library data. In 2016, we held the first North American face-to-face event in Boston (http://www.mashcat.info/past-events/2016-event/) and conducted two webinars (http://www.mashcat.info/2016/01/21/upcoming-webinars-in-early-2016/). We look forward to seeing you there! On behalf of the organizing committee: * Galen Charlton * Erin Grant * Mary Jinglewski * Erin Leach * Emily Williams * Susan Wynne -- Galen Charlton Infrastructure and Added Services Manager Equinox Software, Inc. / Open Your Library email: [log in to unmask] direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web: http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & http://evergreen-ils.org