Evidence Synthesis Methods Interest Group

Are you working on an article related to graduate librarianship? Do you have a story worth sharing about an experience or initiative related to graduate librarianship? Consider submitting to the Journal of Graduate Librarianship, which is currently accepting manuscripts for both peer-reviewed articles and Sharing Our Stories pieces. Our 2025 submission deadline is April 14, 2025. For more information, consult our call for papers, and please share it with anyone who might be interested!

Also, the JGL team is delighted to announce that its second volume is now complete! It covers a wide array of topics and likely includes something for just about any librarian who works with graduate students: five articles about instructional initiatives, three articles about theses/dissertations, two in-depth reports on original research studies, and a whole buffet of case studies, ideas, inspiration, and professional wisdom. We invite you to browse the volume's contents online or use the list below to dive straight into a specific article.

We also welcome your answers to our current Practitioner Panel question: What's on your professional reading list for 2025? (What's Practitioner Panel? See below!)

JGL Volume 2 Contents

Editorial:

• How I Learned to Love Peer Review (Wendy Doucette)

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

• Librarian Instruction of Researcher Profile Systems to Graduate Students: A Case Study (Caroline Monnin and Justin Fuhr)
• Integrating Diverse Perspectives in Graduate Statistics Education Through Academic and Library Faculty Collaboration (Christina Jones, Ethan Fridmanski, and Julie A. Lorah)
• Let's Get Digital: Retrospective Digitization of ETDs for an Institutional Repository (Marc Jaffy)
• Investigating the Lived Experiences of Graduate Students at the University of New Mexico (Holly M. Surbaugh, Olivia Baca, Liz Cooper, Mark Emmons, and Teresa Y. Neely)
• "It Is Such a Hidden Curriculum Thing": Graduate Students' Perceptions of Publishing (Christy Caldwell, Martha Stuit, and Lucia Orlando)
• How We Stopped Charging Students to Submit ETDs: Case Study of a Five-Year Odyssey (Gregory Wiedeman and Emily Kilcer)

Sharing Our Stories:

• Helping Our Graduate Students SOAR: Promoting Scholarship and Populating Our Institutional Repository (Elaine Wells)
• Research Tools for Graduate Students: Reflections on Eight Years of Graduate Student Workshops (Lisa Becksford Russell)
• Professional Development for Library Interns: Creation of a Guide and Program (Rebecca Hedreen, Jessica Bernier, Alexis Haakonsen, Jennifer Mottolese, and Ariss Tiu)
• Creating a Road Map for Librarians to Teach Statistical Literacy (Giovanna Badia)
• Engaging Graduate Students in Three Easy Steps: Failures and Successes From Back-to-Back Years (Rhonda Rosen, Raymundo Andrade, and Alexander Justice)
• Graduate Student Journal Article Writing Group: Creating Community Around Publishing (Gabrielle Brehne, Catherine Baird, and Alicia Remolde)

Practitioner Panel:

• Our Community Chimes In (Curated by Corinne Bishop and Wendy Doucette)

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Jill Cirasella (she/her)
Associate Professor
Scholarly Communication Librarian and University Liaison
Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center
jcirasella@gc.cuny.edu
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