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. Please save the date for the fifth annual MIRL Symposium on Thursday, November 20, 2025! Registration and more information will be announced later this summer.

Thank you to those who joined us for the fourth annual MIRL Symposium!

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.

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

MIRL 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
• 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 upcoming and future MIRL Symposia will be hosted on Henry Ford Health's institutional repository, Scholarly Commons, a service of Sladen Library.