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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Save the date for the
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">, a free virtual event with
a focus on Institutional Repository (IR) management, curation, and promotion in a health sciences environment.
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">The inaugural conference will take place virtually on Wednesday, November 17, 2021.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">MIRL Symposium 2021 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 conference will be a mix of presentation types; potential
topics range from the impacts of the COVID pandemic on biomedical scholarly publishing, to the rise of preprint servers, to strategies for the continued promotion of open access health sciences content.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Please share with anyone who may be interested. A call for papers and presenters will be coming this summer.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Questions can be directed to
</span><a href="mailto: brenda.fay@aah.org"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">Brenda Fay</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">,
Librarian Specialist at Advocate Aurora Health. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">MIRL 2021 planning group members:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:700">Brenda Fay</span><span> (Advocate Aurora Health)</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:700">Sara Hoover</span><span> (Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, George Washington University)</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:700">Ramune Kubilius</span><span> (Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine)</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>Steven Moore
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:700">Lisa Palmer</span><span> (Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School)</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>Gayle Williams
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