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 marketing and publicizing institutional repositories.
Events from 2025
Compliance and Collections: Making Medical Archives More Accessible, Meggan Cashwell
Lessons Learned from Showcasing Repository Usage Statistics to Inform and Inspire, Hilary Davis and Avkash Chandra
Expanding our IR after health system combination: Nurses lead the way, Jennifer Deal and Karen Hanus
Cultivating Collections: Growing the IR Through Collaboration, Jennifer Langford
Rees-Jones Center for Foster Care Excellence Collection: Resources for providers, caregivers, child welfare professionals and others, Amy Six-Means and Erinne Conner
Go the Distance: Student Workers and Repository Impact, Jessea Young
Events from 2024
REACH: Partnering with our Research Colleagues for Fun and Funding!, Dina McKelvy and Maegan Halica
Institutional Repository as Bait: Luring Users into a Suite of Publishing and Data Services, Pamela Pierce
Events from 2023
Getting Creative: Implementing "Fan Favorite" Voting in Digital Commons Event, Jennifer Deal and Elizabeth Suelzer
Slump: Find Funding and New Friends in a Bad Year, Dina McKelvy
HCA Healthcare Scholarly Commons: Assembling a Knowledge Menagerie, Lindsay Million
Advancing Research Visibility through Collections: A Case Study from Nursing, Travis Nace
Cleaning-up and Marketing OHSU Digital Collections, Pamela Pierce and Marijane White
How to Showcase and Preserve the History of a Medical Library using The TMC Library's Digital Commons Exhibits, Alice Sherwood
Events from 2022
Dashboard Confessional: Moving Behind-the-Scenes Metrics to the Spotlight, Steven Moore
Events from 2021
Digitizing the Accolades: Documenting Institutional Research Impact with a Video Time-Capsule, Jeanette Aprile
Individual Authorship Reports, Sarah Ellsworth
Community-driven Repository Infrastructure Programs at LYRASIS—an Overview, Paolo P. Gujilde, Sheila Rabun, and Hannah Rosen
Riding the Wave: Getting Faculty on Board with the IR During the Pandemic, Jennifer M. Langford and Randall Watts
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
Going Beyond the IR: Using Content-Specific Platforms and Targeted Outreach to Provide Integrated Access to a Medical School’s Education Scholarship, Brandon T. Pieczko and Hannah J. Craven
Online Academic Days: Using the IR to Showcase Student and Resident Scholarly Activity During a Pandemic, Leanna Stager and Stacy Posillico
Grass Roots Efforts to Find Champions for SHARE, Heather Steel
