CFP: 2025 Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium - Virtual Meeting - November 20, 2025

The Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Planning Committee is now accepting proposals for the fifth MIRL Symposium (https://scholarlycommons.henryford.com/mirl/), a free event which will take place virtually on Thursday, November 20. 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 2025 will present a keynote panel featuring leaders from the medical IR community.

 

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:

• Policies and practices that ensure confidentiality (eg. 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/MIRLCFP25

 

Dates

• Deadline for submitting proposals: Friday, September 5, 2025
• Acceptance emails will be sent no later than Monday, September 15, 2025
• Registration is free for all attendees and will open on Monday September 22, 2025

 

Please contact Steven Moore (smoore31@hfhs.org) for any questions about the proposal process or about MIRL. 

MIRL 2025 planning group members:

• Lisa Buda, Rochester Regional Health
• Jennifer Deal, Advocate Health
• Anthony Dellureficio, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Jimmy Ghaphery, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries
• 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