Northeast Institutional Repository Day

Northeast Institutional Repository Day

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ABOUT NIRD24

The sixth annual Northeast Institutional Repository Day (NIRD24) is a free virtual event that brings together those in the Northeast (and beyond!) who manage or are interested in institutional repositories, digital collections, and digital preservation. NIRD24 will be held on Thursday, December 5, 2024 in the afternoon EST and Friday, December 6, 2024 in the morning EST (exact times TBD). This site is a repository of conference materials and managed by the NIRD Planning and Programming Committees.

NIRD24 Watch Party

NIRD24 will continue its recent tradition as a virtual conference, however we have an exciting announcement! We are hosting an in-person “NIRD24 Watch Party” in Cambridge, MA at Harvard University for this year’s NIRD. Attendees will be able to register to watch the conference together and have a chance to meet each other in person! This is a NEW EXPERIMENT for our conference, but we are hoping some of you can attend and join us in some of the pre/post-conference activities we are working on.

*** Call for Proposals ***

The Northeast Institutional Repository Day 2024 (NIRD24) Program Committee is pleased to issue its Call for Proposals for the sixth annual Northeast Institutional Repository Day, a free event that brings together those in the Northeast (and beyond!) who manage or are interested in institutional repositories, digital collections, and digital preservation. With the success of our recent events and in an effort to continue to make NIRD available to as many participants as possible, all presentations will be delivered virtually.

December 5th and 6th, 2024
Time: December 5th afternoon ET (UTC -5); December 6th morning ET (UTC -5)
Virtual event (Zoom link will be provided to registrants)  

The NIRD24 Program Committee welcomes any proposal related to institutional repositories, especially work that can be applicable to other institutions, even those working on different platforms. Tell us what helped or hindered your work in these or other areas: 

  • IR metadata interoperability, ingest, or maintenance;  
  • Stewardship of digital files in various formats;
  • Repository migration or updates;
  • Building relationships with IR depositors or contributors;
  • IRs as library publishing platforms;
  • Improving accessibility, equity, and inclusion for IR contributors and users;
  • IR policies;
  • Experiences with artificial intelligence

Proposals that are platform agnostic are particularly encouraged. The Program Committee is not accepting proposals from vendor representatives for NIRD24. 

The Program Committee is requesting that proposals fall into the following formats: 

  • Lightning Talk (5-7 min) - a brief, free-standing presentation, with or without slides
  • Presentation (20 min) - a more comprehensive, free-standing presentation or panel

Important dates: 

  • Deadline for submission: September 30, 2024
  • Notification of acceptance: October 31, 2024

Please submit your proposal using this form (https://forms.gle/adrQQbSGgszh3qD17).

If you have questions about NIRD24 programming, please contact one of the Program Committee members (see contacts below).

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QUESTIONS?

If you have questions about NIRD24, please contact one of the conference organizers.

NIRD24 Planning Committee

NIRD24 Program Committee

MORE About Northeast Institutional Repository Day (NIRD)

A group of librarians from New England collaborated to organize the first-ever Northeast Institutional Repository Day (NIRD) at Boston University on June 18, 2019. The goal of this free event was to bring together all in the Northeast (and beyond) who manage or are interested in institutional repositories, digital collections, and digital preservation. We are platform agnostic. Following on that successful conference, NIRD has become an annual event. See the links below for details and presentations from each conference.

For more information about the history of NIRD, see our November 2019 article in Against the Grain: "NIRDs Unite: Building a Community of Institutional Repository Practitioners in the Northeast."

NIRD Code of Conduct

The Northeast Institutional Repository Day (NIRD) values your attendance and is dedicated to providing a positive, harassment-free conference experience for everyone. We want NIRD to be welcoming and supportive and we do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form.

All communication should be appropriate for a professional audience including people of many different backgrounds. Verbal comments that reinforce social structures of domination related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, national or regional origin, body size, race, age, religion (or lack thereof), or other marginalized characteristics are inappropriate. Be kind and respectful to others. Do not insult or put down other attendees. Be careful in the words that you choose. Remember that sexist, racist, and other exclusionary jokes are not appropriate for NIRD. We ask that participants use discretion with photographs of others, recordings, and publicly sharing others' ideas.

If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the NIRD Planning Committee may take any action it deems appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the event. If you are being harassed, witness another participant being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact an event organizer immediately; see Attendee Procedure for Handling Harassment for more detail about what would happen. At in-person events, event organizers will wear identifying buttons, and the registration desk will be staffed throughout the event. To contact event organizers during an online event, please use the NIRD contact email address, which is monitored on event days: nird.contact@gmail.com (alternatively, you can send a private chat in Zoom to an identified NIRD organizer).

This policy is adapted from the policies of:

This policy is licensed under the Creative Commons Zero license. It is public domain, no credit and no open licensing of your version is required.

Website Platform Migration

In August 2022, Northeast Institutional Repository Day (NIRD) moved from the bepress Digital Commons platform to Open Repository, a DSpace platform hosted by Atmire. In keeping with the collaborative and platform-agnostic spirit of the NIRD community, NIRD decided in August 2024 to host all forthcoming conference content on Zenodo. Content from the 2019-2023 NIRD conferences will continue to be hosted and available from UMass Chan Medical School’s institutional repository, eScholarship@UMassChan. Moving to Zenodo enables us to share the management of our repository without worrying about institutional affiliations or differences between our own IR platforms. Thank you to UMass Chan for hosting the 2019-2023 conference materials.

Image credit: Boston University Libraries' Greene Scholars Creative Team and particularly to Hannah Hong (CFA '23).