Quality 2/5Difficulty 3/5
Online lectures are outdated and dull. Focus on the readings instead, the lectures basically repeat them verbatim. Not an engaging class. You'll pass, though.Rate My Professors ↗
Current instructor
Kyung-Sun Kim
What students say
Original student reviews · all captured dates
Quality 2/5Difficulty 5/5
My largest complaint was with the final assignment. When I received the grade on my final project (20+ pages) it was evident that only the final page was graded. I lost points for mistakes on the assignment that I didn't make. I emailed the professor a month ago asking for clarification and I still have not received a response.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 1/5Difficulty 5/5
AVOID Sunny for 651. Bone-dry lectures. Terrible communication. Discussions full of experienced librarians being totally lost. Sunny ignores questions about contradictory info & acts like things are self-evident. She makes up insane search strategies, e.g. associating "cattle" with cats. Sunny clearly has no recent LIS experience. Awful; run away.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 5/5Difficulty 2/5
Sunny is a great professor. You end up learning a lot after you finish her assignments & they never feel unnecessary. She cares about you understanding the material and loves answering questions in class. Gave us a couple of weeks off for holidays & catching up on assignments as well. If she is being unclear, she happily clarifies if you ask herRate My Professors ↗
Quality 2/5Difficulty 4/5
Awful communication in this course. She tends to really overcomplicate assignment directions and then get mad when students either misconstrue the assignment or "make it too complicated" (her words). She's very direct and can be super harsh when students ask for help, meetings with her were always very intimidating.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 5/5Difficulty 3/5
She is knowledgeable, organized, and helpful. Her course covered quite complex stuff totally new to us, but at the end of the semester, I was pleasantly surprised to find out how much I had learned and enjoyed it. I did not expect this because the course was known to be tough, but now I am a convert. Whatever she did worked!Rate My Professors ↗
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Classes with Kyung-Sun Kim
Introduces concepts of information organization, online searching, retrieval theories, and database structures for LIS graduate students.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.97 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=16 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.87 GPA, 95.7% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.92 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=31 letter grades).
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Fall 2025Cataloging and Classification covers basic principles and techniques for descriptive cataloging, subject headings, Dewey Decimal Classification, and OCLC editing.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Kyung-Sun Kim
Kyung-Sun Kim taught a well-structured course, though feedback was mixed. One student found the material useful but overwhelming, while another described the lectures as bone-dry and criticized the instructor's communication and search strategies.
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2023–Spring 2026Recorded teaching history
Distinct courses recorded per term
Explore courses taught by this instructor →Browse recorded courses
| Term | Course | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Spring 2027 | LIS 602 | Information: Organization and Search |
| Spring 2027 | LIS 651 | Cataloging and Classification |
| Fall 2026 | LIS 603 | Research and Assessment for Information Professionals |
| Fall 2026 | LIS 668 | Digital Curation and Collections |
| Fall 2026 | LIS 990 | Research and Thesis |
| Fall 2026 | LIS 999 | Independent Reading and Research |
Teaching history may be incomplete. Course pages contain course-specific feedback and citations.
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