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Dr. Laura-Edythe Sarver Coleman is an American researcher who bridges the fields of library science and museum studies to further our understanding of cultural institutions in society. She earned her Ph.D. in Information Science with a focus on Museum Informatics from Florida State University. Dr. Coleman has held posts as an online lecturer for the Graduate Museum Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University and as adjunct faculty for the School of Information at Florida State University. Her areas of research and teaching include cultural heritage informatics, social justice and inclusion, knowledge management, information architecture, information needs and seeking, research methods, collections management, and museum studies. As a forward-thinking Library and Information Science (LIS) researcher, she performs quantitative and qualitative studies and frequently forms research partnerships outside the library and museum fields. Dr. Coleman is a recent addition to the Fulbright Specialist Program for Library and Information Science, and she is the new Associate Editor for Curator: The Museum Journal. She is the author of Understanding and Implementing Inclusion in Museums.

Research
As a researcher, she designs, develops and explores research topics concerning the role of museums and cultural heritage institutions in society. I study the ways in which museums and libraries impact society through information provision and access. My research area is Museum Informatics: the apex of museums, information, people and technology. I work with museums and their communities to understand their role in creating a more just society. My current research project through Johns Hopkins University: Coleman, L.-E., & Phillips, A. (2017-2019) Understanding Empathy in the Profession: A Comparative Study of American Museum Professionals and American Librarians.