About the MIRL Symposium

In February 2021 a group of medical librarians from institutions and hospitals around the United States began putting together the inaugural Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium, which was held on November 17, 2021. The goal of this event was 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.

MIRL is the proud recipient of the 2023 Jean Williams Sayre Innovation Award from the Midwest Chapter of MLA.

For more information about the history of MIRL, see our July 2023 JMLA case report The Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium: a blueprint designed in response to a community of practice need.

Keynote Presentation: A CAPTivating Future for Repositories: The vital need for curation, access, preservation, and transparency in scientific communications by Kathryn Funk, Program Manager, PubMed Central, National Library of Medicine

Presentations: 31 | Registrants: 230+

Keynote Presentation: The NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy: Roles and Opportunities for Libraries and Institutional Repositories by Dr. Lisa Federer, NLM Data Science and Open Science Librarian.

Presentations: 18 | Registrants: 300+

Keynote Presentation: IRs in the Medical Landscape: A conversation with library leaders with Robin Champieux (Oregon Health & Science University), Kristi Holmes (Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine), Elizabeth Mamo (Rochester Regional Health), Mary Piorun (UMass Chan Medical School), and Gabriel Rios (Indiana University).

Presentations: 14 | Registrants: 415

Keynote Presentation: Breaking Down Silos: USRN and the Future of Repository Networks" with Dr. Jennifer Beamer (SPARC | Visiting Program Officer U.S. Repository Network).

Presentations: 13 | Registrants: 366

Keynote Presentation: "Different Views of IRs in the Medical Landscape: A Panel Reflects on 2025" with Nicole Contaxis (NYU Health Sciences Library), Colin Lukens (Harvard Library), and Dina McKelvy (MaineHealth).

Presentations: 22 | Registrants: 377