Evidence Synthesis Methods Interest Group

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Charge: To promote and develop competencies around evidence synthesis including systematic reviews, meta-analyses, scoping reviews, and other related methods of research synthesis, through activities such as: Facilitating discussion and peer-support; Creating and managing a resource page; Encouraging programming and publications around systematic reviews through ACRL.
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  • 1.  Upcoming ESMIG Events

    Posted Oct 18, 2023 12:22 PM

    Greetings ACRL ESMIG members,

    I hope the fall semester is going well for all of you.  I want to introduce Amy Riegelman our new Co-Convenor. She is a Social Sciences and Evidence Synthesis Librarian at the University of Minnesota and Co-PI on the IMLS-funded Evidence Synthesis Institutes. 

    Amy and I are excited to be your Co-Conveners this year and are happy to report that we are now up to 762 current members.  We have some good ideas for upcoming journal article discussions and tool demonstrations but would like your input in planning future events.  Please take the brief survey by selecting the link below.  This will help us determine what much of the group is interested in and help set the agenda for our upcoming meetings.

     https://forms.gle/y9badrpGeU7tZoZh7

    The first meeting for this term will be held on October 31st at 1PM ET. Sarah Young, a librarian at Carnegie Mellon University and former Co-Convener of ESMIG,  will be doing some information sharing about the  Open Learning Initiative and Campbell collaboration online course entitled "Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis" and providing feedback on her experience at the recent Cochrane Colloquium which was held in London last month.

    Then, on November 21st at 1PM ET, Amy Riegelman will be leading a journal club discussion about the following article:

    Jarvis, C., Gregory, J. M., Mortensen-Hayes, A., & McFarland, M. (2021). Borrowing trouble? The impact of a systematic review service on interlibrary loan borrowing in an academic health sciences library. Journal of the Medical Library Association: JMLA, 109(1), 84.

    Please save the dates for these upcoming meetings!

    Oct 31 at 1pm ET

    Nov 21 at 1pm ET

    For more information on ESMIG or to sign up to lead future journal discussions please visit ESMIG's Evidence Synthesis Resources Guide. 

    Aimee Sgourakis Jenkins

    Lead Librarian for Bibliometric Services

    Liaison Librarian for Sociology, Psychology, and Geology and Environmental Sciences

    405 Hillman Library| University of Pittsburgh

    E: aimees@pitt.edu

    Amy Riegelman (she, her, hers)
    Social Sciences & Evidence Synthesis Librarian

    University of Minnesota

    Co-recipient of the 2022 Minnesota Academic Innovator Award 
    http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4127-5222



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    Aimee Jenkins
    Librarian
    University of Pittsburgh
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