March 2026 Institute
Day 1: March 2, 2026
| Time (EST) |
Topic Session |
Session Lead |
|---|---|---|
| 11:00 | Welcome and introductions
Q&A on intro video Share survey to gather questions for day three recap |
Megan |
| 11:30 | Exploring different review methodologies | Sarah |
| 12:00 | Break | |
| 12:15 | Reproducibility, transparent methods, and pre-registration | Amy |
| 12:45 | Evidence synthesis steps and librarians as co-investigators | Molly |
| 1:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 2:00 | Formulating a Research Question | Elizabeth & Natasha |
| 2:30 | Frameworks (e.g., PICO) and eligibility criteria | Lindsay |
| 3:00 | Break | |
| 3:15 | Debrief with your discipline cohort
Introductions What experience do you already have w/ systematic reviews? Have you ever registered a protocol? Have you ever worked on a PRISMA flow diagram or completed a PRISMA checklist? Do you find that your users are confused about the various review types? Disciplinary-wise, what protocol templates would be most useful for your scholars? What reporting guidelines are used in your discipline? What protocol registries exist? |
Day 2: March 3, 2026
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Time (EST)
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Topic Session | Session Lead |
| 11:00 | Jim | |
| 11:30 | Zahra | |
| 12:00 | Break | |
| 12:15 |
The reference interview: how to have a conversation with a review team
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Panel: Zahra , Amy, Natasha
Moderator: Megan |
| 1:00 |
Lunch break
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| 2:00 | Selecting databases for evidence synthesis | Sarah |
| 2:15 | Search strategies part 1:
Group assignments
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Scott, Matt, Elizabeth, and Sarah |
| 3:30 | Debrief with discipline cohorts
What frameworks have you used? If a researcher comes to you and says, I want to do a review on _____vague discipline-relevant topic____, what would you ask in the reference interview? How have these conversations gone for you previously? Have you had to redirect patrons to a different type of review? |
Day 3: March 4, 2026
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Time (EST)
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Topic Session | Session Lead |
| 11:00 | Scott, Matt, Elizabeth, and Sarah | |
| 1:00 |
Lunch break
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| 2:00 | Grey literature | Amy |
| 2:45 | Break | |
| 3:00 | Zahra | |
| 3:30 | Elizabeth | |
| 3:45 | Debrief with discipline cohorts
What databases do you use most frequently in your discipline? How comfortable are you with using the advanced search features of the various platforms? What are the major sources of grey lit in your field? How do you discover or access those items? Facilitator demonstrates a past/current review topic and how they approached the search strategy How do you plan to stay informed about evidence synthesis literature searching in your discipline/s? |
Day 4: March 5, 2026
Day 5: March 6, 2026
| Time (EST) |
Topic Session |
Session Lead |
|---|---|---|
| 11:00 | Automation, machine learning, and AI | Lindsay Sarah, & Molly |
| 12:00 | Break | |
| 12:15 | AI & evidence synthesis Discussion | Lindsay Sarah, & Molly |
| 1:00 | End |
