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.

Save the Date(s) for the 2026 MIRL Symposium! The MIRL Symposium is now a two-day event held virtually on Thursday November 19 and Friday November 20, 2026.

The MIRL Planning Committee is now accepting proposals for the 2026 Symposium. Please submit your proposal for either a 10-minute lightning talk or a vendor presentation here: https://tinyurl.com/MIRL26.

The deadline for proposals is Friday September 4, 2026. Please contact Steven Moore (smoore31@hfhs.org) if you are unable to access the form.

MIRL Symposium 2026 planning group members:

• Lisa Buda, Rochester Regional Health
• Jennifer Deal, Advocate Health - Midwest
• Anthony Dellureficio, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• 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.

Browse past presentations by subject:

• Archives and Preservation
• Data and Access
• Data Migration
• IR Management
• Marketing and Publicity
• Publishing and Copyright
• Technical