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Esmeralda Garcia Rodgers, MLIS, AHIP

Howdy! I am an Evidence Review & Synthesis Librarian for Texas A&M University Medical Sciences Library. Prior to Texas A&M, I served as liaison librarian to health sciences, nursing, and pharmacy departments at the University of Texas at Tyler and as a reference assistant at LeTourneau University. I am passionate about supporting research through expert literature searching. My experience includes training graduate students in complex database searching, providing mediated search services, and guiding student and faculty researchers through systematic, scoping, and integrative reviews.

What I Can Do For You

  • Provide guidance for evidence synthesis projects, including systematic reviews, scoping reviews, and more
  • Help with conducting thorough literature searches in biomedical databases and grey literature resources
  • Connect you with software to support and streamline the review process including Covidence, Mendeley, and Zotero 

Professional Affiliations

Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP), MLA

Medical Library Association (MLA)

  • Systematic Review Services Specialization I, received June 2024
  • Systematic Review Services Specialization II, received March 2025

South Central Chapter / Medical Library Association (SCC/MLA)

Education

Master of Library & Information Science, Valdosta State University, 2023

Bachelor of Arts in International Studies, Baylor University, 1999