We are excited to announce that the second face-to-face Mashcat event in North America will be held on January 24th, 2017, in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA. We invite you to save the date.  We will be sending out a call for session proposals and opening up registration in the late summer and early fall.

Not sure what Mashcat is? "Mashcat" was originally an event in the UK in 2012 aimed at bringing together people working on the IT systems side of libraries with those working in cataloguing and metadata. Four years later, 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. Among our accomplishments in 2016 was holding the first North American face-to-face event in Boston in January and running webinars.  If you're unable to attend a face-to-face meeting, we will be holding at least one more webinar in 2016.

To learn more about Mashcat, visit http://mashcat.info.

Thanks for considering, and we hope to see you in January.