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  • Digital divide 2014

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2014 Latest report from the ITU on the Information societ y gives data on the level of ICT development in 166 economies worldwide.   ICT -Eye has more free telecommunications statistics.

  • MDB Reform Accelerator

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 13, 2023 MDB Reform Accelerator  Multilateral Development Banks, or MDBs, are supranational institutions set up by sovereign states, which are their shareholders.

  • Incunabula in Special Collections

    Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on April 10, 2014 For a University the size and age of Leicester the Library has a surprising rich collection of incunabula (books printed before 1501).

  • Time-Lapse Maps of Russia’s War on Ukraine

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 27, 2023 Released by the Institute For the Study of War, it is possible to download maps for each month of the war and to interact with them to zoom in and look at advances made by specific...

  • A Global Survey of Journalism and AI

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2019 New from Polis think tank a study which reveals how artificial intelligence is currently being used by news services and what its future might be.

  • Are Students addicted to their Mobile Phones?

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2014 Read this interesting exploratory paper.  Hooked on Smartphones: An Exploratory Study  on Smartphone Overuse among College Students by Uichin Lee et al.

  • British Political Speech Archive

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2015 A great resource developed by Swansea University. It lists all major speeches for Conservative, Labour and Liberal/Liberal Democrat Party leaders from 1895 onwards.

  • How do recent graduates communicate?

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2015 Does the transition from college to the workplace effect how you communicate? This question was considered in a recent qualitative study  by Google staff at the 48th Hawaii...

  • Are millennial workers ‘lazy’ ‘digital addicts’?

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2015 These are some of the myths challenged by the  IBM global study of over 1,700 workers born between 1980-1993.

  • MediArXiv launched

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 8, 2019 A new   scholar-led digital archive  for media, film and communication studies—has just been launched by Jeff Pooley , Associate Professor of Media & Communication,...

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