Brian Dobreski is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Sciences at University of Tennessee-Knoxville. His research focuses on the social implications of metadata, resource description, and other knowledge organization practices, as well as the concepts of personhood and personal identity in information. Brian received his Ph.D. in information science from Syracuse University. He has authored works in publications including Journal of Documentation, Knowledge Organization, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, Education for Information, International Journal of Digital Curation, and Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. He currently serves as President of the Canada & U.S. Chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization.
