Kyong Eun Oh

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

Kyong Eun Oh is an Associate Professor and the 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. Oh served as the Program Chair of the DCMI 2023 Annual Conference, the Chair of the Best Practice presentations track at the DCMI 2021 Annual Conference, and the Co-Chair of the Best Practice presentations track at the DCMI 2020 Annual Conference.

Oh teaches graduate courses in information organization, metadata, and research methods. Her research interests include personal information management, information organization, 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.