Biography

Jiebei Luo is an Assistant Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Before joining OU, she worked as an academic librarian at New York University, Boston College, and Skidmore College, supporting data-intensive research and teaching across the social sciences and business disciplines.

Her research focuses on data-seeking behaviors and library support, data literacy instruction and LIS education, and data science and artificial intelligence applications in library services, including AI literacy and competency for librarians.

Academic appointment

Assistant Professor of Library and Information Studies
University of Oklahoma, 2026–present

Grants

• Principal Investigator, Exploring University Students' Data-Seeking Behaviors in the Social Sciences — IMLS National Leadership Grants for Libraries, 2026–2028 ($148,175)
• Co-Principal Investigator, Creating a Multiple-Literacy Scale to Enhance Academic Library Instructional Services — IMLS National Leadership Grants for Libraries, 2026–2029 ($428,159)
• Principal Investigator, Understanding Student Data-Seeking Behaviors for Enhanced Library Pedagogy — NYU Teaching Advancement Grant, 2023–2024

Awards

• Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Beta Phi Mu, 2025
• Thomas J. Galvin '56LS Endowed Scholarship Fund, Simmons University, 2024–2025
• Merit–Based Tuition Scholarship, Simmons University, 2021–2023

Previous academic library experience

• Financial and Economic Data Analysis Librarian, New York University, 2022–2026
• Data Services Librarian, Boston College, 2019–2022
• Data and Scholarly Communication/Reference Librarian, Skidmore College, 2014–2019