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Addressing self-harm via digital innovation (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nicol, E., & Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2018, November). Addressing self-harm via digital innovation. Poster presented at ‘Tomorrow’s World: The Next 10 Years of Mental Health Research’, Annual Scientific Meeting of NHS Research Scotland’s Mental Health Network, Edinburgh

"Why not use it more?" Sources of self-efficacy in researchers’ use of social media for knowledge sharing (2018)
Journal Article
Alshahrani, H., & Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2018). "Why not use it more?" Sources of self-efficacy in researchers’ use of social media for knowledge sharing. Journal of Documentation, 74(6), 1274-1292. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-04-2018-0051

Purpose: To investigate the sources of self-efficacy that researchers rely on when using social media for knowledge sharing and to explore how these sources impact their use. Design/methodology/approach: The study employed 30 semi-structured intervie... Read More about "Why not use it more?" Sources of self-efficacy in researchers’ use of social media for knowledge sharing.

Student wellbeing: Managing your PhD journey (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2018, July). Student wellbeing: Managing your PhD journey. Paper presented at 10th Annual Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance PhD Conference (SICSA Conference 2018), Aberdeen

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Relationship status: Libraries and linked data in Europe (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rasmussen Pennington, D., & Cagnazzo, L. (2018, July). Relationship status: Libraries and linked data in Europe. Paper presented at 15th International ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization) Conference, Porto, Portugal

Libraries shared metadata long before the advent of the Internet by utilising standards such as MARC and AACR to enable interoperability (Tallerås, 2013). A difficulty with their use in the networked environment has been the inability to exchange dat... Read More about Relationship status: Libraries and linked data in Europe.

What is research evidence? (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rasmussen Pennington, D. M. (2018, July). What is research evidence?. Paper presented at CILIP Conference 2018, Brighton

It is time to dispel the myth that only ‘researchers’ or ‘academics’ in the information profession can and should do research. All information professionals have a place in collecting and examining data to improve their services, resources, and space... Read More about What is research evidence?.

Book review: David Haynes, Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval: Understanding Metadata and Its Use (2018)
Journal Article
Pennington, D. R. (2021). Book review: David Haynes, Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval: Understanding Metadata and Its Use. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 53(4), 699-700. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000618783103

David Haynes published the first edition of this book in 2004. It outlined the basics of metadata, including description, standards, purposes and management. In its final chapter, he questioned whether metadata as we knew it at the time would remain,... Read More about Book review: David Haynes, Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval: Understanding Metadata and Its Use.

Social media for learning and teaching: Examining the landscape (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rasmussen Pennington, D. M. (2018, June). Social media for learning and teaching: Examining the landscape. Presented at University of Strathclyde's 4th Annual Learning and Teaching in an International Technological University Conference, Glasgow

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"Lookin' for a sound that's gonna drown out the world": Resolving musical emotional ambiguity in U2's POPVision (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2018, June). "Lookin' for a sound that's gonna drown out the world": Resolving musical emotional ambiguity in U2's POPVision. Paper presented at The U2 Conference 2018 - POPVision, Belfast

Semantic ambiguity complicates finding desired information. Additionally, the same music elicits different emotions in different people, which makes it difficult to find music online that meets our emotional desires. I operationalise this as “musical... Read More about "Lookin' for a sound that's gonna drown out the world": Resolving musical emotional ambiguity in U2's POPVision.

Youth mental health and information engagement (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2018, May). Youth mental health and information engagement. Paper presented at Engage 2018: Digital Health Citizen Engagement Network: Changing Care Together, Glasgow

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Searching for the right feelings: Emotional metadata in music (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2018, April). Searching for the right feelings: Emotional metadata in music. Presented at Information Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (UK & Ireland Branch) Annual Study Weekend, Edinburgh

This paper will move beyond the bounds of bibliographic description and to discuss research about emotions shared by music fans online and how they might be used as metadata for new approaches to search and retrieval.

Public library mobile apps in Scotland: Views from the local authorities and the public (2018)
Journal Article
Kerr, A., & Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2018). Public library mobile apps in Scotland: Views from the local authorities and the public. Library Hi Tech, 36(2), 237-251. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-05-2017-0091

Purpose – The purpose of this research was to examine current public library apps in Scotland and assess Scottish public library users’ opinions of those apps. Design/methodology/approach – Two qualitative and quantitative surveys were conducted. One... Read More about Public library mobile apps in Scotland: Views from the local authorities and the public.

New formats, new information environments, new methodologies (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pennington, S. (2017, July). New formats, new information environments, new methodologies. Paper presented at Roundtable facilitated at information: interactions and impact (i3), Aberdeen

The ubiquitous availability of virtual information has changed how people seek and use it. The increasing existence of smartphones, tablets, and wearable devices has made virtual information environments available almost everywhere. Initial Internet... Read More about New formats, new information environments, new methodologies.

Resource Description and Access in Europe: Implementations and perceptions (2017)
Journal Article
Ducheva, D. P., & Pennington, D. R. (2019). Resource Description and Access in Europe: Implementations and perceptions. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 51(2), 387-402. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000617709060

This research explored the implementations and perceptions of the Resource Description and Access (RDA) cataloguing standard in Europe. It refers to the development and implementation of the standard among Anglo-American libraries and draws compariso... Read More about Resource Description and Access in Europe: Implementations and perceptions.

Making emotional information retrieval a reality (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2017, April). Making emotional information retrieval a reality. Paper presented at #IRFest2017, Glasgow

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Coding of non-text data (2017)
Book Chapter
Pennington, D. (2017). Coding of non-text data. In L. Sloan, & A. Quan-Haase (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Social Media Research Methods. SAGE Publications

This chapter overviews the domain of “non-text” data that can be found on social media, such as videos and photographs. It then outlines research methods that can be applied to analysing and coding these non-text documents and their associated texts.... Read More about Coding of non-text data.

Faculty perceptions on publishing research (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pennington, D. R., Swanson, A., Akwaowo, E., & Zobisch, P. (2016, September). Faculty perceptions on publishing research. Presented at 19th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, Belfast

Today’s researchers have not only the traditional publications, but the open access publishing method whereby research papers can be published via the Internet as well as print publications. Researchers must carefully scrutinize the open access publi... Read More about Faculty perceptions on publishing research.