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.
Thank you to those who joined us for the fourth annual MIRL Symposium, held on November 21, 2024! Slides are now available! Check back soon for presentation recordings.
MIRL 2024 featured a keynote by Dr. Jennifer Beamer, SPARC | Visiting Program Officer US Repository Network, who highlighted 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. Dr. Beamer's keynote is titled "Breaking Down Silos: USRN and the Future of Repository Networks."
Questions about the event can be directed to Steven Moore, Librarian at Sladen Library, Henry Ford Health.
MIRL 2024 planning group members:
- Lisa Buda, Rochester Regional Health
- Jennifer Deal, Advocate Health - Midwest
- Anthony Dellureficio, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Sara Hoover, The National Institutes of Health Library
- Ramune Kubilius, Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
- Steven Moore, Sladen Library, Henry Ford Health
- Gbadeo Odularu, Howard University
- Lisa Palmer, Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
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 upcoming and future MIRL Symposia will be hosted on Henry Ford Health's institutional repository, Scholarly Commons, a service of Sladen Library.