Diane Pennington

Biography

I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Information Science and the Course Director of the MSc in Information & Library Studies at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. I teach information organisation, library cataloguing, and library systems. As the leader of the Information Engagement research group within Strathclyde's iSchool, I supervise doctoral students and conduct research include metadata quality, semantic web/linked data implementation, tagging, and classifying user engagement on social media, with a particular focus on digital health and wellbeing. I serve on the joint ALA/CILIP/CFLA-FCAB CMSC<a target=""_blank"" rel=""nofollow me noopener noreferrer"" href=""http://cfla-fcab.ca/en/about/committees/cms-committee/""></a> Cataloging Ethics Steering Committee, and I am the Chair of CILIP's Metadata and Discovery Group.