Call for Proposals: 2026 Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium
Moore, Steven J.
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The Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Planning Committee is now accepting proposals for the 2026 MIRL Symposium (https://scholarlycommons.henryford.com/mirl/), a free event which will take place virtually on Thursday, November 19 and Friday, November 20, 2026.
MIRL is a platform-neutral conference for IR practitioners and those with an interest in IRs at hospitals, academic medical centers, and other health settings to discuss and share case studies and best practices for digital archiving of institutional content.
MIRL 2026 will present a keynote speaker to begin each day: Sally Gore (Manager of Research and Scholarly Communication Services, Lamar Soutter Library, UMass Chan Medical School) and Joshua Cromwell (Scholarly Communications Manager, Cook Library, University of Southern Mississippi).
We are accepting proposals for:
- Lightning talks (approximately 10 minutes including Q&A)
- Vendor talks (pre-recorded and available as recordings only)
The MIRL planning committee welcomes proposals on a variety of topics including, but not limited to:
- Policies and practices that ensure confidentiality (e.g., PHI /personal health identifiers in IRs), accessibility, diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Unusual medical/health sciences institutional repository (IR) content, collections, use cases, collaborations, or challenges
- Migrating repository platforms: stories, processes, and lessons learned
- IRs in a time of budget cuts: ROI and justifying the cost
- Finding your champions, marketing your IR
- Reporting out: telling your IR story with statistics and metrics
- IR harvesting and support tools, workflow
- Strategies for management of faculty/researcher publications, conference posters, student collections, digital exhibits, digital archives, preprints, datasets
- Promoting open access (OA) initiatives
- Use of technologies (from APIs to AI)
Submit your proposal here: https://tinyurl.com/MIRL26
(Please contact me if you cannot access tinyurl.com links at your institution.)
Dates
- Deadline for submitting proposals: Friday September 4, 2026
- Acceptance emails will be sent no later than Monday September 21, 2026
- Registration is free for all attendees and will open on Monday September 21, 2026
Please contact Steven Moore (smoo...@hfhs.org) for any questions about the proposal process or about MIRL.
MIRL 2026 planning group members:
- Lisa Buda, Rochester Regional Health
- Jennifer Deal, Advocate Health
- Anthony Dellureficio, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Sara Hoover, George Washington University Libraries & Academic Innovation
- 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
Best,
Steven J. Moore, MSLIS, AHIP
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Sladen Library, Henry Ford Hospital
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