Deadline Extended: Call for Proposals - Northeast Institutional Repository Day 2026 (NIRD26)
Colin Lukens
The NIRD26 Program Committee has extended the deadline for submitting a proposal until Tuesday, October 15. Please submit proposals using this form and see below for more details.
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The Northeast Institutional Repository Day 2026 (NIRD26) Program Committee is pleased to issue its Call for Proposals for the eighth annual Northeast Institutional Repository Day, a free event that brings together those in the Northeast (and beyond!) who manage or are interested in institutional repositories, digital collections, and digital preservation. 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.
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 welcomes 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 extended: October 15, 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