Paul Marty

Paul F. Marty is Assistant Professor in the College of Information at Florida State University. He has a background in ancient history and computer science engineering, and his Ph.D. is from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before arriving at FSU, he was Director of Information Technology at the University of Illinois’ Spurlock Museum.

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The State of Museum Research

At the AAMs this year, I was on a panel discussing the future of museum research in the 21st century. This panel was prompted by the 2005 IMLS study about the status of data collection in the nation’s museums. If you haven’t read the study’s report, you might want to check it out — it [...]

P is for Penguin

One of the things I do at the Museums and the Web conference each year is to run the “usability lab,” a session of very short usability analyses of museum websites. Designed to introduce museum and information professionals to the principles of usability analysis in thirty minutes or less, the usability lab employs a “game [...]