Call for Proposals: 2024 Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium (Online Thurs., Nov. 21)–Deadline Fri., Sept. 6

(via Ramune Kubilius, Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center at Northwestern University)

The Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) planning committee is now accepting proposals for the fourth MIRL Symposium, a free event which will take place virtually on Thursday, November 21 (time to be determined). MIRL is a platform-neutral conference for IR practitioners and those with an interest in IRs at hospitals, academic medical centers, and other health settings to discuss and share case studies and best practices for digital archiving of institutional content. 

MIRL 2024 will feature a keynote by Dr. Jennifer Beamer, SPARC | Visiting Program Officer US Repository Network, who will highlight the strategic mission of USRN to create a more cohesive network of repositories in the US, recent activities of the network, and what role medical IRs can play in the stakeholder community.   

We are accepting proposals for:

• Presentations (approximately 20 minutes, including Q&A)
• Lightning talks (approximately 10 minutes, including Q&A)

The MIRL planning committee welcomes proposals on a variety of topics including, but not limited to:

• Policies and practices that ensure confidentiality (eg. PHI /personal health identifiers in IRs), accessibility, diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Unusual medical/health sciences institutional repository (IR) content, collections, use cases, collaborations, or challenges
• Migrating repository platforms: stories, processes, and lessons learned
• IRs in a time of budget cuts: ROI and justifying the cost
• Finding your champions, marketing your IR 
• Reporting out: telling your IR story with statistics and metrics 
• IR harvesting and support tools, workflow 
• Strategies for management of faculty/researcher publications, conference posters, student collections, digital exhibits, digital archives, preprints, datasets
• Promoting open access (OA) initiatives
• Use of technologies (from APIs to AI)

Submit your proposal here.

Dates

• Deadline for submitting proposals: Friday, September 6
• Acceptance emails will be sent no later than Monday, September 16
• Registration is free for all attendees and will open on Monday, September 23

Please contact Steven Moore (smoore31@hfhs.org) for any questions about the proposal process or about MIRL.