Kyong Eun Oh

Simmons University School of Library and Information Science

(Click the name above to access the faculty page.)

Last edited: December 3, 2025

Information Behavior and Practices

Projects

Mobile news information behavior
The use of Google Scholar and the academic library discovery systems
Information organizing behavior

Publications

Oh, K., & Tang, R. (2023). Smartphones, current events and mobile information behavior. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Smartphones-Current-Events-and-Mobile-Information-Behavior-Consuming/Oh-Tang/p/book/9780367512071
Tang, R., & Oh, K. (2022). The impact of types of news on mobile news consumption behavior: A mixed method research. Libri, 72(2), 155-169. https://doi.org/10.1515/libri-2021-0071
Tang, R., & Oh, K. (2020). University students’ mobile news consumption activities and evaluative/affective reactions to political news during election campaigns: A diary study. Journal of Information Science, 46(4), 476-495. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551519845855
Oh, K. & Tang, R. (2019). Mobile news processing: University students’ reactions to inclusion/exclusion-related news. In N. Taylor, C. Christian-Lamb, & B. Nardi (Eds.), Information in Contemporary Society. iConference 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 11420, 302-311. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15742-5_30.
Oh, K., & Colón-Aguirre, M. (2019). A comparative study of perceptions and use of Google Scholar and academic library discovery systems. College & Research Libraries, 80(6), 876-891. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.80.6.876
Oh, K., & Tang, R. (2018). How do university students receive, read, find, share, and store news? A survey research study on mobile news behavior. Journal of Library & Information Studies, 16(1), 1-21. https://jlis.lis.ntu.edu.tw/article/v16-1-1.pdf
Tang, R., & Oh, K. (2017). Mobile news information behavior of undergraduate and graduate students in the U.S.: An exploratory study. Proceedings of the 2017 iConference, Wuhan, China, 1-7. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/96773
Koh, K., Oh, K., Agarwal, N., & Belkin, N. (2015). Information seeking and beyond: Impacts of studying different forms of information behavior. Proceedings of the 78^th Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting, USA, 52(1), 1-5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pra2.2015.14505201009.

Talks

Oh, K., & Tang, R. (alphabetical order) (2023). Interview with the authors: Kyong Eun Oh and Rong Tang on Smartphones & Current Events. Interview with Lauren Hays at Lucidea. https://lucidea.com/blog/interview-with-the-authors-kyong-eun-oh-and-rong-tang-on-smartphones-current-events/ (Invited interviewee)

Personal Information Management

Projects

Collaborative research information management
Managing paper-based information in our digital world
Types of personal information categorization
The process of organizing personal information

Publications

Oh, K. (2025). Effective shared file management in cloud storage for collaborative research: Lessons from successful cases. Proceedings of the 88^th Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting, USA, 62(1), 1613-1615. https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/pra2.1484
Oh, K. (2025). Personal information management. In The organization of information (5^th ed., pp. 37). New York, NY: Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited.
Oh, K. (2024). A comprehensive investigation of researchers’ shared file management practices in cloud storage. Human-Computer Interaction. https://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2024.2310551
Oh, K. (2023). Investigating the choice of cloud repository platform for collaborative research projects. iConference 2023 Proceedings, 1-8. https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/126398/bitstreams/413383/object?dl=1
Oh, K. (2023). Characteristics of collaborative research projects using cloud storage: Cross-disciplinary analysis. GARI International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 9(4), 40-51.
Oh, K. (2022). Cross-analysis of researchers’ different shared file management activities in cloud storage. Proceedings of the 85^th Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting, USA, 59(1), 773-775. https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/pra2.722
Oh, K. (2021). Social aspects of personal information organization. Journal of Documentation, 77(2), 558-575. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-06-2020-0104
Oh, K. (2019). Personal information organization in everyday life: Modeling the process. Journal of Documentation, 75(3), 667-691. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-05-2018-0080
Oh, K. (2018). Personal information management. In The organization of information (4^th ed., pp. 48-49). Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.
Oh, K. (2017). Types of personal information categorization: Rigid, fuzzy, and flexible. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68(6), 1491-1504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.23787
Oh, K., & Belkin, N. (2015). Personal information categorization: The rigid, fuzzy, and flexible categorizers. Proceedings of the 2015 iConference, USA, 1-3. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/73717.
Oh, K., & Belkin, N. (2014). Understanding what personal information items make categorization difficult. Proceedings of the 77^th Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting, USA, 51(1), 1-3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/meet.2014.14505101139.
Oh, K. (2013). The process of organizing personal information. Advances in Classification Research Online: Proceedings of the 23^rd American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) SIG/CR Workshop, 23(1), 5-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.7152/acro.v23i1.14227.
Oh, K. (2012). What happens once you categorize files into folders? Proceedings of the 75^th American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting, USA, 49(1), 1-4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/meet.14504901253.
Oh, K. (2012). Exploring the process of organizing personal information. Proceedings of the 2012 iConference, Toronto, Canada, 433-434. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2132238.
Oh, K., & Belkin, N. (2011). Cross analysis of keeping personal information in different forms. Proceedings of the 2011 iConference, USA, 732-733. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1940761.1940888.

Talks

Oh, K. (January 2025). Personal file organization & shared file management. Personal Information Management (PIM) Research Seminars. (Invited speaker)
Bergman, O., Dinneen, J., Oh, K. (alphabetical order) (2022). File management. Personal Information Management (PIM) Research Seminars. (Invited speaker)
Oh, K. (2020). Personal information organization in everyday life. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. (Guest lecture in the course Application of Research in Information Technology)