Diane Pennington

Biography

Dr. Diane Rasmussen Pennington is Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Information Science and the Course Director for the MSc/PgDip in Information and Library Studies at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. She teaches modules in organisation of knowledge, cataloguing, and library systems. Her research areas include library linked data, tagging, metadata quality, and classifying user engagement on social media. She is a member of the Strathclyde iSchool Research Group, in which she leads the Information Engagement research area and belongs to the Interactive Information Retrieval research area. She is the Chair of CILIP’s Metadata and Discovery Group and the Co-Chair of the iSchools Women’s Coalition. She holds an MS and a PhD in information science from the University of North Texas and has earned a PGDip in Academic Practice from the University of Strathclyde.