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

The Cataloguing Code of Ethics 2021: Conception, Community and Continuation (2023)
Journal Article
Daniels, J., & Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2023). The Cataloguing Code of Ethics 2021: Conception, Community and Continuation. Art Libraries Journal, 48(2), 33-37. https://doi.org/10.1017/alj.2023.3

Cataloguing has existed for millennia but until January 2021 there was no formal code of ethics for this branch of the information profession. But what is the Code? Who created it and why? How was it produced? Is the Code immutable and what relevance... Read More about The Cataloguing Code of Ethics 2021: Conception, Community and Continuation.

Measuring the concept of PID literacy: user perceptions and understanding of PIDs in support of open scholarly infrastructure (2023)
Journal Article
Macgregor, G., Lancho-Barrantes, B. S., & Pennington, D. R. (2023). Measuring the concept of PID literacy: user perceptions and understanding of PIDs in support of open scholarly infrastructure. Open Information Science, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2022-0142

The increasing centrality of persistent identifiers (PIDs) to scholarly ecosystems and the contribution they can make to the burgeoning 'PID graph' has the potential to transform scholarship. Despite their importance as originators of PID data, littl... Read More about Measuring the concept of PID literacy: user perceptions and understanding of PIDs in support of open scholarly infrastructure.

Automation of university library operations: An analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic experience in the United Kingdom and Nigeria (2023)
Conference Proceeding
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, Physicality, Inclusivity - 18th International Conference, iConference 2023, Virtual Event, March 13–17, 2023, Proceedings, Part II (217-225). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28032-0_19

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.

Research instrument and data for, 'Exploring the concept of PID literacy : user perceptions and understanding of persistent identifiers in support of open scholarly infrastructure' (2022)
Other
Macgregor, G., Lancho-Barrantes, B. S., & Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2022). Research instrument and data for, 'Exploring the concept of PID literacy : user perceptions and understanding of persistent identifiers in support of open scholarly infrastructure'. [Survey results]

The research instrument and accompanying data for the paper, "Exploring the concept of PID literacy: user perceptions and understanding of persistent identifiers in support of open scholarly infrastructure". Deposit includes: 1) The research instrume... Read More about Research instrument and data for, 'Exploring the concept of PID literacy : user perceptions and understanding of persistent identifiers in support of open scholarly infrastructure'.

The development and future of the Cataloguing Code of Ethics (2022)
Journal Article
Chan, M., Daniels, J., Furger, S., Rasmussen, D., Shoemaker, E., & Snow, K. (2022). The development and future of the Cataloguing Code of Ethics. Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 60(8), 786-806. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2022.2134247

The Cataloguing Code of Ethics, released in January 2021, was the product of a multi-national, multi-year endeavor by the Cataloging Ethics Steering Committee to create a useful framework for the discussion of cataloging ethics. The six Cataloging Et... Read More about The development and future of the Cataloguing Code of Ethics.

The impact of test elements on students' performance in EFL (2022)
Conference Proceeding
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
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
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.

Information overload: a concept analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Belabbes, M. A., Ruthven, I., Moshfeghi, Y., & Pennington, D. (2023). Information overload: a concept analysis. Journal of Documentation, 79(1), 144-159. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-06-2021-0118

Purpose: With the shift to an information-based society and to the de-centralisation of information, information overload has attracted a growing interest in the computer and information science research communities. However, there is no clear unders... Read More about Information overload: a concept analysis.

Twitter use by the dementia community during COVID-19: a user classification and social network analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Alhayan, F., Pennington, D., & Ayouni, S. (2023). Twitter use by the dementia community during COVID-19: a user classification and social network analysis. Online Information Review, 47(1), 41-58. https://doi.org/10.1108/oir-04-2021-0208

Purpose The study aimed to examine how different communities concerned with dementia engage and interact on Twitter. Design/methodology/approach A dataset was sampled from 8,400 user profile descriptions, which was labelled into five categories a... Read More about Twitter use by the dementia community during COVID-19: a user classification and social network analysis.

YouTube as a helpful and dangerous information source for deliberate self-harming behaviours (2022)
Conference Proceeding
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/10.1007/978-3-030-96960-8_23

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)
Conference Proceeding
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 (292-313). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96960-8_20

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
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
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.