{"id":6167,"date":"2012-10-07T11:33:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T16:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=6167"},"modified":"2012-10-09T10:38:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T15:38:13","slug":"lita-forum-in-columbus-oh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/lita-forum-in-columbus-oh\/","title":{"rendered":"LITA Forum in Columbus OH"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, I think probably the best conference programs for me were the Ben Schneiderman<\/a> keynote and a session<\/a> on public library website redesign, taking a broad view – looking at service redesign, what services the library can provide through its website, not simply improving the look of the site – tho that was a big part of it, too.<\/p>\n

Schneiderman talked about information visualization – he had one great graph of Republican vs. Democratic votes, over time, showing the polarization of the two parties; red and blue markers swimming away from each other – and he happily pointed out how the blue swam left and the red right, in the iteration of the graph he showed.\u00a0 He also had a nice example of how even NYT<\/a> is using visualization now. I guess the HCI lab’s biggest software, NodeXL<\/a>, doesn’t go on the Mac – but I’m sure there’re ways of getting around that.<\/p>\n

We had Starbucks cookies for lunch, and I went back to the room to work.<\/p>\n

Dinner was the Explorer’s Club<\/a> – no pictures. Kind of a cross between Cuban & German & American comfort food. We had fried plantains for an appetizer. Abigail had the special, Schweinebraten – German pork roast with potato pancake & red cabbage, and I had bbg brisket and pork that came with baked beans, jalape\u00f1o cole slaw, and what they called corn pudding, but was more like a muffin. Mark had a spicy pasta and we split a pumpkin cream puff. The filling was good, the choux pastry a little tough. Went back to the hotel <\/a>way too full, and got dozy watching SNL – not a very good one; the opener was the horrifying recap of the presidential debate<\/a>, host Daniel Craig in several skits playing a working class idiot, both American and British, and can’t say the musical guest Muse<\/a> was my idea of fun.<\/p>\n

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