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Orwell vs Kafka
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/06/10/orwell-vs-kafka/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 10, 2024 A suite of special programmes broadcast over eight days on BBC Radio 4 comprising a reading of 1984, six 30-minute documentaries on the authors and the relevance of their writing today...
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AI intersections database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/07/01/ai-intersections-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 1, 2024 AI intersections database maps intersections between social justice and human rights, documented AI impacts and their manifestations in society.
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Moving an item in Blackboard
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2016/10/05/moving-an-item-in-blackboard/
Posted by Stephen Walker in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on October 5, 2016 It’s very easy to move items from one area of Blackboard to another. It just takes few clicks.
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CNS North Korea Missile Test Database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/09/04/cns-north-korea-missile-test-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 4, 2017 Keep up to date with the latest tests of all missiles launched by North Korea capable of delivering a payload of at least 500 kilograms (1102.
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European Convention Human Rights anniversary – 67 years!
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/13/european-convention-human-rights-anniversary-67-years/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 13, 2017 The European Convention on human rights was signed 67 years ago,. See this happy birthday video and blog on its importance from the Rights Information blog.
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Irish in Britain exhibition
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/26/irish-in-britain-exhibition/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 26, 2024 Created by London Metropolitan Archives, an online exhibition and oral history of Irish migration to Britain since the 1970s.
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Bitcoin ‘offers opportunities to charities’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/08/bitcoin-offers-opportunities-to-charities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2015 According to the latest report from the Charities Aid Foundation online currencies such as Bitcoin could enable charities to cut currency transfer costs and encourage transparency.
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LGBT Hate crime under-reported
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/29/lgbt-hate-crime-under-reported/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 29, 2015 88% of UK LGBT people have experience emotional or physical hate crime and only 14% have felt able to report the most recent crimes to the police.
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Suffragettes on File
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/16/suffragettes-on-file/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2018 A new educational resource from the National Archives designed for teachers of Key stage 1,3,5 – Suffragettes on File .
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Wikipedia bans the Daily Mail as an ‘unreliable source’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/17/wikipedia-bans-the-daily-mail-as-an-unreliable-source/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 17, 2017 See the discussion from the Wikipedia reliable sources noticeboard There is also some interesting discussion by the Nieman Lab Also see this recent article on search strategies in...