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<p class="MsoNormal">***Please consider submitting a proposal and share with anyone who might be interested***<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) planning committee is now accepting proposals for the inaugural Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)
Symposium, a free event which will take place virtually on Wednesday, November 17, 2021 (time to be determined). MIRL is a platform-neutral conference and 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. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">MIRL will feature a keynote by
<b>Kathryn Funk</b>, Program Manager, PubMed Central, National Library of Medicine.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We are accepting proposals for:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in;padding-inline-start:48px" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Panel discussions (approximately 50 minutes including Q&A)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Presentations (approximately 20 minutes including Q&A)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Vendor presentations (approximately 5-10 minutes including Q&A)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Lightning talks (approximately 5-10 minutes including Q&A)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The MIRL planning committee welcomes proposals on a variety of topics including, but not limited to:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in;padding-inline-start:48px" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Unique medical/health sciences institutional repository (IR) collections, use cases, or challenges<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Migrating repository platforms: stories, processes, and lessons learned<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">IRs in a time of budget cuts: ROI and justifying the cost<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Finding your champions: marketing your IR <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Reporting out: telling your IR story with statistics and metrics <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">IR harvesting and support tools, workflow <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Preprints and medical IRs<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Your IR as a journal publishing platform<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Strategies for management of faculty/researcher publications, conference posters, student collections, digital exhibits<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Promoting Green OA initiatives<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Supporting promotion and tenure using your IR<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">COVID-19 and your IR<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Accessibility policies and practices<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Diversity, equity and inclusion: adopting anti-racist and anti-oppression statements and practices, diversity and health information<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">IR work beyond the pandemic: telecommuting or other changes.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Submit your proposal here:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
</span><a href="https://forms.gle/AR7pu3qfEjjsVnxu8"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://forms.gle/AR7pu3qfEjjsVnxu8</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dates</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in;padding-inline-start:48px" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Deadline for submitting proposals: Friday, September 3, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Acceptance emails will be sent no later than September 17, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Registration is free for all attendees and will open in September. <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Please contact Brenda Fay at
</span><a href="mailto:Brenda.Fay@aah.org"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Brenda.Fay@aah.org</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> for any questions about the proposal process or about MIRL. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">MIRL 2021 planning group members:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Brenda Fay</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> (Advocate Aurora Health)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo4;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sara Hoover</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> (Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, George Washington University)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo4;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ramune Kubilius</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> (Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo4;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Steven Moore </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(Henry Ford Health System)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo4;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Lisa Palmer</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> (Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Gayle Williams </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(Henry Ford Health System)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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