The Facet Discovery Collection

About Facet

Ken Varnum is the Senior Program Manager for Discovery Delivery and Learning Analytics at the University of Michigan Library. Ken's research and professional interests include discovery systems content management and user-generated content. From 2007-2015 he was the Web Systems Manager at the U-M Library where he managed the library's Drupal-driven website. He wrote Drupal in Libraries (2012) and edited The Top Technologies Every Librarian Needs to Know (2014) and The Network Reshapes the Library: Lorcan Dempsey on Libraries Services and Networks (2014). You can learn more about Ken at http://varnum.org and find him on Twitter at @varnum. Dr Louise Spiteri is Director of the School of Information Management Dalhousie University Halifax Nova Scotia Canada. Dr. Spiteri has published extensively in the areas of social tagging folksonomies social discovery systems and library cataloguing. Dr. Spiteri teaches in the areas of information management metadata records management cataloguing classification and taxonomies. Allen Foster has a BA in Social History a Master's in Information Management and a PhD in Information Science. As Reader in Information Science he has held various roles including Head of Department for Information Studies at Aberystwyth University. His research interest areas span the research process of Master's and PhD students the development of models for information behaviour and serendipity and user experience of information systems creativity and information retrieval. He has guest edited for several journal special issues is a regional editor for The Electronic Library and is a member of journal editorial boards international panels and conference committees. Dr Pauline Rafferty MA(Hons) MSc MCLIP is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Teaching and Learning at the Department of Information Studies Aberystwyth University. She previously taught at the Department of Information Science City University London and in the School of Information Studies and Department of Media and Communication at the University of Central England Birmingham. David Stuart is an independent information professional and an honorary research fellow at the University of Wolverhampton and was previously a research fellow at King's College London and the University of Wolverhampton. He regularly publishes in peer-reviewed academic journals and professional journals on information science metrics and semantic web technologies and in 2015 began writing a regular column for the journal Online Information Review called 'Taming Metrics'. He has previously published Web Metrics for Library and Information Professionals (Facet Publishing 2014) and Facilitating Access to the Web of Data (Facet Publishing 2011).