Kyong Eun Oh

Kyong Eun Oh joined the Simmons SLIS faculty in Fall 2013. Oh’s research areas include human information behavior, personal information management, and information organization. She studies how people use, manage, organize, and interact with information in everyday life, and how society and technology influence their behaviors. In her project funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, she is investigating how researchers manage shared files in cloud storage for their collaborative projects. She has published in Human-Computer Interaction, Journal of Documentation, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, College & Research Libraries, and the Journal of Information Science, among other scholarly journals. She has also published a book, Smartphones, current events, and mobile information behavior (Routledge). She is a recipient of the ALISE/Eugene Garfield Dissertation Award.

Oh teaches courses in information organization, metadata, information technology, and research methods. She serves as a Governing Board member of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) and an Editorial Board member of Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics. She served as the Program Chair of the DCMI 2023 Annual Conference, the Chair of the Best Practice track at the DCMI 2021 Annual Conference, the Chair of the 2021 ALISE/Connie Van Fleet Award Committee, the Co-Chair of the Best Practice track at the DCMI 2020 Annual Conference, the Co-Chair of the ALISE/Jean Tague-Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Poster Competition in 2016, and the Publicity Chair of the International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries in 2015.

Education

• PhD, Communication and Information, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ)
• MA, Library and Information Science, Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea)
• BA, English Language and Literature & Library and Information Science, Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea)

Courses

• LIS 415 Information Organization
• LIS 445 Metadata
• LIS 642 Applied Statistics for Library and Information Science
• LIS 403 Evaluation of Information Services
• LIS 488 Technology for Information Professionals
• LIS 601 Independent Study for Doctoral Students

Research/Special Projects (Selected)

• Collaborative research information management
• Information organization: Theoretical and practical topic analysis
• Evidence-based research in academic libraries
• Mobile news information behavior
• The use of Google Scholar and the academic library discovery systems
• Managing paper-based information in our digital world
• The process of organizing personal information
• Analysis of tags
• Online health information organization
• Information visualization literacy
• Technology use in classrooms