The Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) planning committee is now accepting proposals for the third MIRL Symposium (https://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/mirl/2023), a free event which will take place virtually on Thursday, November 16, 2023 (time to be determined). 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.


We are accepting proposals for:

  *   Presentations (approximately 20 minutes including Q&A)

  *   Lightning talks (approximately 10 minutes including Q&A)


The MIRL planning committee welcomes proposals on a variety of topics including, but not limited to:

  *   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

  *   Policies and practices that ensure confidentiality (eg. PHI /personal health identifiers in IRs), accessibility, diversity, equity, and inclusion

  *   Use of technologies (from APIs to AI)


Submit your proposal here: https://tinyurl.com/mrxcntyk


Dates

  *   Deadline for submitting proposals: Friday, September 1, 2023

  *   Acceptance emails will be sent no later than Monday, September 18, 2023

  *   Registration is free for all attendees and will open on Monday, September 25, 2023


Please contact Steven Moore<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) for any questions about the proposal process or about MIRL.


MIRL 2023 planning group members:

  *   Lisa Buda (Libraries at Rochester Regional Health)

  *   Anthony Dellureficio (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)

  *   Brenda Fay (Advocate Health - Midwest)

  *   Sara Hoover (Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, George Washington University)

  *   Ramune Kubilius (Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine)

  *   Steven Moore (Sladen Library, Henry Ford Health)

  *   Lisa Palmer (Lamar Soutter Library, UMass Chan Medical School)

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