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By popular demand, MIRL 2026 will be a two-day symposium! Save the dates for the Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://scholarlycommons.henryford.com/mirl__;!!KVWo1iE!RIyQZbFIXGoZxB72aj5JzkMI_ajLzJgXdvzJi0M3QnZhmkipYNn0tVTKyxRQBT0SS3CPfprItzB2_IM$>, a free virtual event with a focus on Institutional Repository (IR) management, curation, and promotion in a health sciences environment.

  *   The sixth annual symposium will take place virtually on Thursday, November 19 and Friday, November 20, 2026.
  *   Daily keynote speakers include 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).
  *   There is no cost for participating, but registration will be required.
  *   Registration information and a program agenda for each half-day will be announced later this summer.


The MIRL Symposium is a platform-neutral conference. Our goal is 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.

The MIRL Planning Committee is now accepting proposals for:

  *   Lightning talks (approximately 10 minutes including Q&A)
  *   Vendor talks (pre-recorded and available as recordings only)


We welcome 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<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://tinyurl.com/MIRL26__;!!KVWo1iE!RIyQZbFIXGoZxB72aj5JzkMI_ajLzJgXdvzJi0M3QnZhmkipYNn0tVTKyxRQBT0SS3CPfprIIgu-jTk$>
(Please contact me if you cannot access tinyurl.com<http://tinyurl.com/> links at your institution.)

Dates

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Deadline for submitting proposals: Friday September 4, 2026
  *
Acceptance emails will be sent no later than Monday September 21, 2026
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Registration is free for all attendees and will open on Monday September 21, 2026

Please consider becoming a member of our Google Group<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://groups.google.com/g/mirl_symposium__;!!KVWo1iE!RIyQZbFIXGoZxB72aj5JzkMI_ajLzJgXdvzJi0M3QnZhmkipYNn0tVTKyxRQBT0SS3CPfprIt_TD22g$> to join the conversation on medical IRs year-round. Instructions for joining can be found here<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9304806?hl=en__;!!KVWo1iE!RIyQZbFIXGoZxB72aj5JzkMI_ajLzJgXdvzJi0M3QnZhmkipYNn0tVTKyxRQBT0SS3CPfprIM06AtsE$>.

Questions can be directed to Steven Moore<mailto:[log in to unmask]>, Librarian at Sladen Library, Henry Ford Health.

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


Learn more about the MIRL Symposium at https://scholarlycommons.henryford.com/mirl/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://scholarlycommons.henryford.com/mirl/__;!!KVWo1iE!RIyQZbFIXGoZxB72aj5JzkMI_ajLzJgXdvzJi0M3QnZhmkipYNn0tVTKyxRQBT0SS3CPfprIfJsUbUM$>



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