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                    Bloomberg: Macroeconomic datahttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/22/bloomberg-macroeconomic-data/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 22, 2013 The U.K. economy grew 0.3 percent in the first quarter, avoiding a triple dip recession. Bloomberg functions show much of the recovery comes from the services industry. 
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                    Same-sex marriage: Francehttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/24/same-sex-marriage-france/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2013 On-going discussion of same-sex marriage in the UK parliament and in France Read the full text of the relevant French law and details of the process in parliament from... 
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                    Bloomberg: Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance/Corporate Social Reponsibilityhttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/17/bloomberg-environmental-social-and-corporate-governancecorporate-social-reponsibility/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 17, 2013 ESG (or CSR) has been topical over the last five years. 
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                    Bloomberg: carbon offsets and environmental issueshttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/24/bloomberg-carbon-offsets-and-environmental-issues/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2013 Carbon markets remain under pressure with the collapse of United Nations climate change talks last week. 
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                    World’s Muslims: Unity and Diversityhttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/08/17/worlds-muslims-unity-and-diversity/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 17, 2012 http://www.pewforum.org/Muslim/the-worlds-muslims-unity-and-diversity-executive-summary. 
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                    American presidency and social mediahttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/11/16/american-presidency-and-social-media/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2012 http://techpresident.com/news/23104/help-digital-infrastructure-obama-wins-re-election TechPresident has a good review of the role of social media in the election. 
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                    Mapping Digital Mediahttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/11/16/mapping-digital-media/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2012 The Center for International Media Assistance in partnership with the Open Society Foundations, announced the publication of an interactive map The project examines the global... 
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                    Syria’s internet blackouthttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/18/syrias-internet-blackout/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 18, 2012 Google launches speak to tweet service because of Syria’s internet blackout, a good example of the use of social media to provide crisis communications. 
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                    New interactive guide to humanitarian financinghttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/01/new-interactive-guide-to-humanitarian-financing/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 1, 2013 http://www.globalhumanitarianassistance.org/data-guides/humanitarian-aid-network Based on the Global Humanitarian Assistance reports http://www.globalhumanitarianassistance. 
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                    Zapadayhttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/06/01/zapaday/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 1, 2012 http://www.zapaday.com/home/ has launched a news service that publishes breaking future news headlines.