Call for Proposals - Northeast Institutional Repository Day 2026 (NIRD26)

[Colin Lukens]

Save the Date + Call for Proposals!

The Northeast Institutional Repository Day is a free, online event that brings together those in the Northeast (and beyond!) who manage or are interested in institutional repositories, digital collections, and digital preservation. 

The eighth annual Northeast Institutional Repository Day (NIRD26) will be held on:

December 3rd and 4th, 2026

Time: 12/3 afternoon ET (UTC -5); 12/4 morning ET (UTC -5)

Virtual event (Zoom link will be provided to registrants)  

The NIRD26 Program Committee is pleased to issue its Call for Proposals. With the success of our recent events and in an effort to continue to make NIRD available to as many participants as possible, all presentations will be delivered virtually. 

We welcome any proposal related to institutional repositories, especially work that can be applicable to other institutions, even those working on different platforms. Tell us what helped or hindered your work in these or other areas: 

• IRs in the current era (budget cuts, artificial intelligence, the Open Access landscape and new funder requirements, etc.);

• Measuring IR impact;

• Digital preservation workflows;

• Innovative IR collaborations and outreach initiatives;

• IRs as library publishing platforms;

• Equity, inclusion, and accessibility for IR contributors, users, and content;

• IR policies; 

• Tools used within IR workflows (for cataloging, transcription, ingest, metadata reconciliation, etc.);

• Where IRs fit within library service models and intra-library collaborations

Proposals that are platform agnostic are particularly encouraged. The Program Committee is not accepting proposals from vendor representatives for NIRD26. 

The Program Committee is requesting that proposals fall into the following formats: 

• Lightning Talk (5-7 min) - a brief, free-standing presentation, with or without slides

• Presentation (20 min) - a more comprehensive, free-standing presentation or panel

Important dates: 

• Deadline for submission: September 30, 2026

• Notification of acceptance: October 30, 2026

Please submit your proposal using this form. 

In keeping with the collaborative and platform-agnostic spirit of the NIRD community, all forthcoming conference content will be hosted on Zenodo under a CC-BY license.

If you have questions about NIRD26, please contact us: ni...@groups.io