The Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium focuses on Institutional Repository (IR) management, curation, and promotion in a health sciences environment. MIRL is a platform-neutral conference. The goal of MIRL is to gather together IR practitioners and those with an interest in IRs at hospitals, academic medical centers, and other health settings for discussions and sharing of case studies and best practices for digital archiving of institutional content.
The content below has been collected from past symposia to reflect the knowledge available on the topic of archives and digital preservation.
Events from 2025
Crosswalk that Talk: Migrating Interview Collections Using Existing Metadata, Jose J. Garza
Cultivating Collections: Growing the IR Through Collaboration, Jennifer Langford
Outage as Opportunity: Local Backups for Long-Term Access, Sarah Weirich, Tara Wink, and Amy Lubinski
Events from 2024
Revitalizing a Web Archives Program as a Solo Archivist, Amanda Greenwood
Events from 2022
Moving Metadata and Medicine: Migrating a Nursing History Photograph Collection to Digital Commons, Maureen Cech
Making Cancer History Online: The OpenWorks @ MD Anderson Legacy Page, Jose Javier Garza
Fedora - An Open Source Digital Preservation Solution, Arran Griffith
Events from 2021
Building a Unique Collection through Collaboration, Patricia Hinegardner and Na Lin
Finding Our Stride – A Health System Repository 4 Years In / “Providence Patents – Using an Institutional Repository to Promote Technology Transfer, Heather J. Martin and Amanda Schwartz
Undertaking a Digital Collection Platform Evaluation at a Health Sciences Library, Pamela Pierce, Steve Duckworth, and Marijane White
A New Partnership: An Institutional Repository and a Systematic Review Search Deposit Service, Stephanie Roth and Will Dean
