Northeast Institutional Repository Day 2025 (NIRD25)

All presentation slides are now available on the records page!

The seventh annual Northeast Institutional Repository Day (NIRD25) was a free virtual event bringing together those in the Northeast (and beyond!) who manage or are interested in institutional repositories, digital collections, and digital preservation.

Save the Dates

NIRD26 will be held on Thursday, December 3, and Friday, December 4, 2026. More information will be available later in 2026. We hope to see you there!

Questions?

If you have questions about NIRD25, please contact one of the conference organizers.

NIRD25 Planning Committee

Erin Jerome, UMass Amherst (Planning Co-Chair) (ewjerome@library.umass.edu)
Colin Lukens, Harvard (Planning Co-Chair) (colin_lukens@harvard.edu)
Emily Ping O’Brien, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (epobrien@wpi.edu)
Jessica Ryan, Smith College (jryan@smith.edu)

NIRD25 Program Committee

Michael Burke, Berklee College of Music (Program Chair) (mburke3@berklee.edu)
Genny Jon, York University (gennyjon@yorku.ca)
Sadie Roosa, MIT (sroosa@mit.edu)
Laura Vavrosky, University of Minnesota Duluth (vavr0040@d.umn.edu)
Peter Whiting, University of Southern Indiana (pwhiting@usi.edu)
Zeineb Yousif, University of North Dakota (zeineb.yousif@und.edu)

This site is a repository of conference materials and managed by the NIRD Planning and Program Committees.

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 presentations from each conference.

2019 Northeast Institutional Repository Day (NIRD19)
2020 Northeast Institutional Repository Day (NIRD20)
2021 Northeast Institutional Repository Day (NIRD21)
2022 Northeast Institutional Repository Day (NIRD22)
2023 Northeast Institutional Repository Day (NIRD23)
2024 Northeast Institutional Repository Day (NIRD24) - filter by subject "NIRD24"
2025 Northeast Institutional Repository Day (NIRD25) - filter by subject "NIRD25"

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

NIRD is committed to providing a welcoming, inclusive, and harassment-free experience for all participants.

All communication amongst conference participants should be professional and respectful of people from diverse backgrounds. Discriminatory, offensive, or exclusionary language or behavior—including jokes or comments about personal characteristics—is not acceptable. Treat everyone with respect and refrain from insults or put-downs. Use care with photographs, recordings, and sharing others’ ideas publicly.

Anyone engaging in harassment may be warned or removed from the event at the discretion of the NIRD Planning Committee. If you experience or witness harassment, or have concerns, please contact an event organizer immediately. Organizers will be identifiable and reachable during online events via nird.contact@gmail.com or private Zoom chat.

This policy is adapted from the policies of:

This policy is licensed under the Creative Commons Zero license.

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 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).