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Lessons Learned from My First Living Systematic Review
My team is diving into the world of living systematic reviews (LSR) as part of our efforts to synthesize COVID-19 evidence, and our first LSR was just published in Annals of Internal Medicine: Risks and Impact of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors or Angiotensin-Receptor Blockers on SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Adults https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-1515 I was responsible for the initial…
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New Collaborations Lead to an MLA Connect Article
I had a few weeks ago, I had half a blog post written about the rise in COVID-19 reviews calling themselves “systematic reviews” and whether that was appropriate given the rapid development of literature in this area. While I was gathering my thoughts, a listserv email came into my inbox with a request from a…
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Quality Assessment in Rapid Reviews
I’ve been in my current position as a librarian for an evidence synthesis team for nine months now, and I’m finally feeling settled and confident in this position. Over the past two months or so, I’ve been given more opportunities to be involved in larger projects like our rapid review products and as part of…
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Yep, Still Here
I started this blog to keep track of professional activities and accomplishments, but I haven’t posted since October 2019. I’d like to say I’ve been super busy (I have been busy, just not super busy), but the fact is that I’ve had some trouble staying motivated the past few months. This isn’t the first time…
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#codepenChallenge – Game of Life
Last week’s CodePen challenge was the Game of Life (the November challenge theme is board games). I created a spinning game wheel with HTML and CSS that was inspired the colorful wheel in the Game of Life. Like a lot of my previous challenges, this one was primarily CSS, with only a few lines of…
Kathryn Vela
Librarian at Large
Kathryn Vela 