Keynote Panel: Different Views of Irs in the Medical Landscape: A Panel Reflects on 2025
Presentation Type
Presentation
Date
2025-11-20
Description
MIRL 2025 featured a keynote panel of library leaders who discussed topics relevant to a medical IR community.
Keywords
MIRL Symposium, 2025 MIRL Symposium, keynote, keynote panel, keynote panel presentation, panel presentation
Speaker Bio(s)
Nicole Contaxis, Head, Data Sharing and Metadata Management, NYU Health Sciences Library, NYU Langone Health As the Head of Data Sharing and Metadata Management and a member of the Data Services Team at the NYU Health Sciences Library, Nicole’s work focuses on research data infrastructure, research data practices, ethics, and policy, including leading ongoing the NYU Data Catalog. The NYU Data Catalog, created in 2014, is an open-source software project designed to help researchers locate data for secondary analysis and to make their own data more discoverable, regardless of where it is stored. Colin Lukens, Senior Repository Manager, Harvard Library Open Scholarship and Research Data Services As Senior Repository Manager with Harvard Library Open Scholarship and Research Data Services, Colin has administered Harvard’s institutional repository (DASH) and its services for over 12 years. A trained archivist, he previously supported collection management and preservation at the Harvard University Archives. Colin is a founding member of both the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation Institutional Repository Advisory Group and the Northeast Institutional Repository Day (NIRD) conference. He also serves as a Community At-Large representative on the DSpace Leadership Group and is a member of the California Digital Library’s eScholarship Advisory Council. Dina McKelvy, Director of Medical Education - Library & Learning Commons, MaineHealth Dina joined the Maine Medical Center Library staff in 2006 and became the Library Director in 2017. She is an Assistant Professor for Tufts University School of Medicine and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Maine Medical Center. Dina is a Fellow of the National Library of Medicine’s Biomedical Informatics program and completed a certificate in AI Strategies from Cornell in 2024.
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Repository Citation
Contaxis, Nicole; Lukens, Colin; and McKelvy, Dina, "Keynote Panel: Different Views of Irs in the Medical Landscape: A Panel Reflects on 2025" (2025). Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium. 2.
https://scholarlycommons.henryford.com/mirl/2025/program/2
Keynote Panel: Different Views of Irs in the Medical Landscape: A Panel Reflects on 2025
MIRL 2025 featured a keynote panel of library leaders who discussed topics relevant to a medical IR community.