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Digital Humanities and Information Science: Making A Difference? (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
de Fremery, W., Mostafa, J., Pennington, D. M. R., Terra, A. L., Cha, J., & Oh, S. (2023, October). Digital Humanities and Information Science: Making A Difference?. Presented at 86th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technolog

In a 2012 ASIS&T panel titled “Humanistic Information Science,” Melanie Feinberg, Jens-Erik Mai, Jonathan Furner, and Joseph Tennis argued that information science as a field “could be richer” if it were to embrace “humanistic approaches to informati... Read More about Digital Humanities and Information Science: Making A Difference?.

Automation of university library operations: An analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic experience in the United Kingdom and Nigeria (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Adetunla, G., Rasmussen Pennington, D., & Chowdhury, G. (2023). Automation of university library operations: An analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic experience in the United Kingdom and Nigeria. In Information for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Phy

This study examined how automation systems enhanced the operations of university libraries in Nigeria and the United Kingdom (UK) during the COVID-19 pandemic. It reviewed literature on the extent of automation, effectiveness of the use of automation... Read More about Automation of university library operations: An analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic experience in the United Kingdom and Nigeria.

The impact of test elements on students' performance in EFL (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alrzini, J., Rasmussen Pennington, D., & Dunlop, M. D. (2022). The impact of test elements on students' performance in EFL. In 16th International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction (IHCI 2022)

Students applying to study at a university in a country that does not use their native language typically have to sit a formal language assessment exam; This exam is now most commonly done electronically. This can be challenging for students if they... Read More about The impact of test elements on students' performance in EFL.

Twitter users' sentiments toward mask wearing (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chang, M., & Pennington, D. (2022, July). Twitter users' sentiments toward mask wearing. Paper presented at 2022 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety), Online

The World Health Organization advises people to wear a face mask in public to protect themselves from COVID-19. It provides materials and cites supporting studies demonstrating that a medical face mask is an effective way to protect people from COVID... Read More about Twitter users' sentiments toward mask wearing.

Essential e-book metadata for everyone (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lagace, N., Booth, E., La Spada, C., & Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2022, May). Essential e-book metadata for everyone. Paper presented at UKSG 2022, Telford

High quality and accurate bibliographic metadata is an essential part of the supply chain for books and e-books as it enables titles to be easily and reliably identified, selected, and accessed. Yet libraries and content providers have worked for yea... Read More about Essential e-book metadata for everyone.

YouTube as a helpful and dangerous information source for deliberate self-harming behaviours (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alhassan, M. A., & Pennington, D. (2022). YouTube as a helpful and dangerous information source for deliberate self-harming behaviours. In Information for a Better World: Shaping the Global Future: iConference 2022 (347-362). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-

Online social media platforms remain an excellent source of data for information scientists. Existing studies have found that people who self-harm find it easier to disclose information regarding their behaviour on social media as compared to in-pers... Read More about YouTube as a helpful and dangerous information source for deliberate self-harming behaviours.

“She Seems More Human”: Understanding Twitter Users’ Credibility Assessments of Dementia-Related Information (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alhayan, F., Pennington, D. R., & Ruthven, I. (2022). “She Seems More Human”: Understanding Twitter Users’ Credibility Assessments of Dementia-Related Information. In Information for a Better World: Shaping the Global Future: iConference 2022 (292-

The presence of incorrect, medically uncorroborated information on social media may be harmful if people believe it. The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify how Twitter users evaluate the credibility of dementia-related information sour... Read More about “She Seems More Human”: Understanding Twitter Users’ Credibility Assessments of Dementia-Related Information.

The 'nested triangle' of metadata supply for OA books (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
O'Leary, B., Snijder, R., Booth, E., & Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2022, February). The 'nested triangle' of metadata supply for OA books. Paper presented at NISO Plus Forum 2022: Global Conversations, Global Connections, Online

Academic librarians want to make research outputs, including Open Access books, fully discoverable to their users and communities in order to develop open and responsible research environments. The key to enabling this is high quality metadata that c... Read More about The 'nested triangle' of metadata supply for OA books.

Walking the talk: Realizing ethical considerations in cataloguing work (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chan, M., Snow, K., Shoemaker, E., Daniels, J., Rasmussen Pennington, D., & Furger, S. (2021, August). Walking the talk: Realizing ethical considerations in cataloguing work. Paper presented at ALA Webinar, Online

Tailored to administrators and managers, this webinar provides an overview of the recently released "Cataloguing Code of Ethics" and highlights particular areas of the Code in which library leadership can meaningfully support the Code in equity, dive... Read More about Walking the talk: Realizing ethical considerations in cataloguing work.

Self-harm: Detection and support on Twitter (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alhassan, M. A., Inuwa-Dutse, I., Shehu Bello, B., & Pennington, D. (2021, July). Self-harm: Detection and support on Twitter. Paper presented at European Conference on Social Media, Cyprus

Since the advent of online social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, useful health-related studies have been conducted using the information posted by online participants. Personal health-related issues such as mental health, self-harm and... Read More about Self-harm: Detection and support on Twitter.

Stroke recovery: What are people talking about on Twitter? (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gallacher, K., Petrie, D., Rasmussen Pennington, D., & Quinn, T. (2021, June). Stroke recovery: What are people talking about on Twitter?. Paper presented at Society for Primary Care’s 49th Annual Scientific Meeting (SAPC ASM), Online

Problem: Stroke survivors and their carers have benefited from advances in treatments and improved support with recovery because of an expanding evidence base, yet certain areas of stroke care require further attention from researchers and funding bo... Read More about Stroke recovery: What are people talking about on Twitter?.

Investigating non-suicidal self-injury discussions on Twitter (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alhassan, M. A., & Pennington, D. (2021, June). Investigating non-suicidal self-injury discussions on Twitter. Paper presented at International Conference on Social Media and Data Mining (ICSMDM 2021), Online

Social networking sites have become a space for people to discuss public health issues such as non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). There are thousands of tweets containing self-harm and self-injury hashtags on Twitter. It is difficult to distinguish bet... Read More about Investigating non-suicidal self-injury discussions on Twitter.

Twitter as health information source: Exploring the parameters affecting dementia-related tweets (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alhayan, F., & Pennington, D. (2020). Twitter as health information source: Exploring the parameters affecting dementia-related tweets. In SMSociety'20 - International Conference on Social Media and Society (277-290). https://doi.org/10.1145/3400806.3400

Unlike other media, research on the credibility of information present on social media is limited. This limitation is even more pronounced in the case of healthcare, including dementia-related information. The purpose of this study was to identify us... Read More about Twitter as health information source: Exploring the parameters affecting dementia-related tweets.

Detecting critical responses from deliberate self-harm videos on YouTube (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alhassan, M. A., & Pennington, D. (2020). Detecting critical responses from deliberate self-harm videos on YouTube. In CHIIR 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (383-386). https://doi.org/10.1145/33434

YouTube is one of the leading social media platforms and online spaces for people who self-harm to search and view deliberate self-harm videos, share their experience and seek help via comments. These comments may contain information that signals a c... Read More about Detecting critical responses from deliberate self-harm videos on YouTube.