Kyong Eun Oh

Associate Professor
School of Library and Information Science at Simmons University
Boston, USA
Representing Institutional Member: School of Library and Information Science at Simmons University

Kyong Eun Oh is an Associate Professor and the Co-Director of the Ph.D. program in the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons University. She has been serving on the DCMI Governing Board since 2014, and served as the Co-Chair of the Metadata Best Practice Presentations track at DCMI Virtual 2020.

Oh teaches graduate courses in information organization, metadata, and research methods. Her research interests include information organization, personal information management, and information behavior. She studies how people manage and organize information and how classification influences the way people find and use information.

Oh earned her Ph.D. at Rutgers University, School of Communication & Information. She received her M.A. in Library & Information Science, and her B.A. in English Language & Literature as well as Library & Information Science from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea.