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Carnegie medals
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/02/19/carnegie-medals/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 19, 2025 The longlist for the 2025 Carnegies has been announced. The Carnegies are awards for books written for children and young adults.
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Global State of Freedom of Information is ‘worrying’…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/03/global-state-of-freedom-of-information-is-worrying/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2016 …according to the annual Open Data Barometer from the World Wide Web Foundation. It says that only 50% of the 92 included countries have ‘reasonably strong’ laws.
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The UK Insecure Work Index 2024
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/08/the-uk-insecure-work-index-2024/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2024 The latest annual index from the Work Foundation shows that, in 2023, an estimated 6.8 million people (21.4%) were in severely insecure work, an increase of 500,000 from 2022.
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Early Modern Manuscripts from National Library of Scotland
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/10/07/early-modern-manuscripts-from-national-library-of-scotland/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2022 An addition to the online digital collection. Over 240 rare medieval and early modern manuscripts are now available from the early manuscripts website .
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Early UK business women
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/06/24/early-uk-business-women/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2022 Women Who Meant Business : Stories of early businesswomen who broke the mould. A website maintained by independent researcher Lizzie Broadbent.
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Women of Westminster online exhibition
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/24/women-of-westminster-online-exhibition/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2019 A new online exhibition available via Google Arts And Culture which has been curated in association with the LSE Library.
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Global voices advocacy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/08/global-voices-advocacy/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2013 A report on the internet firewall in China. Surveys the 2013 battle between Chinese netizens and China’s Great Firewall: http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.
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Twitter transparency
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/08/twitter-transparency/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2013 https://transparency.twitter.
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UN Document Digitisation Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/02/un-document-digitisation-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2012 The UN has created a web page http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/deplib/digitization_program.htm where you can find out about the progress of its document digitisation programme.
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Ministry of Justice website
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/01/ministry-of-justice-website/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 1, 2012 The Ministry of Justice’s website was relaunched this week. The new design provides easier access to content, with information organised by subject.