Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:26:03 +0000
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Hello! Please excuse any cross-posting. The Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Planning Committee is now accepting proposals for the fifth MIRL Symposium (https://scholarlycommons.henryford.com/mirl/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://scholarlycommons.henryford.com/mirl/__;!!KVWo1iE!VBAg8WNCi5GFHCR4CYCOGO7_Djuo6SnMAOBWV-RnV2wawzY1Dpa9j0xHSUHt63xkFulo5YzfITR4eRk$>), a free event which will take place virtually on Thursday, November 20. MIRL is a platform-neutral conference for IR practitioners and those with an interest in IRs at hospitals, academic medical centers, and other health settings to discuss and share case studies and best practices for digital archiving of institutional content. MIRL 2025 will present a keynote panel featuring leaders from the medical IR community. We are accepting proposals for: * Presentations (approximately 20 minutes including Q&A) * Lightning talks (approximately 10 minutes including Q&A) The MIRL planning committee welcomes proposals on a variety of topics including, but not limited to: * Policies and practices that ensure confidentiality (eg. PHI /personal health identifiers in IRs), accessibility, diversity, equity, and inclusion * Unusual medical/health sciences institutional repository (IR) content, collections, use cases, collaborations, or challenges * Migrating repository platforms: stories, processes, and lessons learned * IRs in a time of budget cuts: ROI and justifying the cost * Finding your champions, marketing your IR * Reporting out: telling your IR story with statistics and metrics * IR harvesting and support tools, workflow * Strategies for management of faculty/researcher publications, conference posters, student collections, digital exhibits, digital archives, preprints, datasets * Promoting open access (OA) initiatives * Use of technologies (from APIs to AI) Submit your proposal here: https://tinyurl.com/MIRLCFP25<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://tinyurl.com/MIRLCFP25__;!!KVWo1iE!VBAg8WNCi5GFHCR4CYCOGO7_Djuo6SnMAOBWV-RnV2wawzY1Dpa9j0xHSUHt63xkFulo5YzfE8GhXhg$> 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<mailto:smoore31_at_hfhs.org> (smoore31_at_hfhs.org<mailto:smoore31_at_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 Anthony Dellureficio, MLS, MSc [cid:f55b7383-7d74-4a65-85a9-10e38cddeec6] <https://mskcc.sharepoint.com/Recordings/DellureA@mskcc.org.mp3> Associate Librarian, Data Management Services Research Informatics, Digital Informatics and Technology Solutions (DigITs) ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8339-4989 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065 T 347.443.1538 dellurea_at_mskcc.org<mailto:dellurea_at_mskcc.org> https://library.mskcc.org ===================================================================== Please note that this e-mail and any files transmitted from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center may be privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reading, dissemination, distribution, copying, or other use of this communication or any of its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this message and deleting this message, any attachments, and all copies and backups from your computer. Disclaimer ID:MSKCC
