Marcia Lei Zeng


Marcia Lei Zeng is a professor emerita of Information Science at the School of Information, Kent State University. She has written more than 100 articles and around six books on the various subjects within the field, from knowledge organization systems to metadata to digital humanities. In 2024, she was given the Award of Merit by Association for Information Science and Technology.

Education and career

Zeng has a B.A. and an M.A. in Library and Information Science from Wuhan University in China. In 1992, she received a Ph.D. in Information Science from the School of Computing and Information of the University of Pittsburgh.
Even before her Ph.D., Zeng taught as a lecturer at Wuhan University from 1985 to 1988. After gaining her doctorate, she worked in different positions at the University of Pittsburgh, from collection development in its East Asian Library to assisting in a LIS-related project. Then in 1992, she began teaching at Kent State University, first as an assistant professor and then rose through the ranks. She became a full professor in 2003.
While affiliated with Kent State, she worked in other cities in the US to other continents as well. From 1999 to 2000, she taught as a visiting associate professor at Columbia University in New York. Then later during the 2016 to 2017 school year, she visited Taiwan as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar.

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Books

  • Subirats, I. & Zeng, M. L.. Linked Open Data Enabled Bibliographical Data 3.0 – A practical guide on how to select appropriate encoding strategies for producing Linked Open Data Enabled Bibliographical Data. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
  • Zeng, M.L., & Qin, J.. Metadata, Chicago: ALA Neal-Schuman.

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