Diane Rasmussen Pennington is a Lecturer in Information Science in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Strathclyde. She is also Hon Secretary for CILIP's Library and Information Research Group (LIRG) and the Social Media Manager for the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). A former systems librarian, she teaches classes in the organisation of knowledge and library technologies. Her research investigates representation and retrieval of non-text information as well as online health information. She is the editor of Facet's Computing for Information Professionals series.
Louise Spiteri is Associate Professor at the School of Information Management, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her areas of research interest focus on social tagging, user-generated metadata, discovery systems, classification systems, and taxonomies. She teaches in the areas of metadata, cataloguing, information management, and records management and is the editor of the Facet Publishing book, Managing Metadata in Web-scale Discovery Systems (2016).