Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium

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 MIRL Symposium is free to attend and open to all.

Thank you to all who attended the 2025 MIRL Symposium!

We are grateful for our community and for this year's presenters for an excellent symposium. Presentation slides are now available - check back soon for video recordings!

The 2025 MIRL Symposium featured a keynote panel of library leaders discussing topics relevant to a medical IR community. Panelists included Nicole Contaxis (NYU Health Sciences Library), Colin Lukens (Harvard Library), and Dina McKelvy and Maegan Halica (MaineHealth), and the session was moderated by MIRL Planning Committee member Pam Pierce (Oregon Health & Science University).

Questions about the event can be directed to Steven Moore, Librarian at Sladen Library, Henry Ford Health.

MIRL Symposium 2025 planning group members:

• Lisa Buda, Rochester Regional Health
• Jennifer Deal, Advocate Health - Midwest
• Anthony Dellureficio, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Jimmy Ghaphery, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries
• Sara Hoover, George Washington University Libraries & Academic Innovation
• Ramune Kubilius, Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
• Steven Moore, Sladen Library, Henry Ford Health
• Pam Pierce, Oregon Health & Science University
• Brittany Smith, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, George Washington University
• Michael Upshall, Editor, Charleston Briefings

For more about the MIRL Symposium, visit our About page.

Note: Posters and presentations from past symposia (2021-2023) are available on the former MIRL website, hosted on George Washington University's Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library's institutional repository, Health Sciences Research Commons. All content from 2024 to present MIRL Symposia will be hosted on Henry Ford Health's institutional repository, Scholarly Commons, a service of Sladen Library.