Person
Dr. Lynda Kelly
Organization
Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, Australia
Position
Head of Learning
Has been working in museum field since
1987
The recording date of the interview
November 30, 2012

Quotes

And it is a great achievement of ours that, with the support of the Ford Foundation, we have been able to digitalize them all and make 45000 items public through our online catalogue.

Text of the interview

Dr. Lynda Kelly is Head of Learning at the Australian National Maritime Museum. When this interview was filmed, Lynda was Manager Online, Editing and Audience Research at the Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia, and she writes a blog called "Museums and the Digital". In the interview she explains what audience research means for museums. Dr. Kelly also talks about her theory of three kinds of museum spaces: physical, online and mobile. She encourages museum professionals to think mobile first.

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Questions

  • Who did you want to be growing up?
  • Where did you study?
  • What was your attitude to museums before you became a museum professional?
  • When and how did you start working in the museum field?
  • In which museum department did you start your career?
  • Could you describe how your career was evolving?
  • What was your idea of what ICTs could do when you were only beginning to work with them?
  • When you first encountered ICTs did you feel that they were necessary in a museum, appropriate, important?
  • Where were the first computers in your museum?
  • Which role do ICTs play in your museum today?
  • What do you think is going to be the future or ICTs in your museum? Any ideas about the future?