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Who are the top employers for LGBT staff?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/07/24/who-are-the-top-employers-for-lgbt-staff/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 24, 2017 Find out in the latest Stonewall Global Workplace Equality Index 2017 . It considers areas including recruitment, promotion, retention, training and leadership.
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Harry Potter: a history of Magic launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/02/3453/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2018 Based on the popular British Library exhibition and a new online exhibition from Google Arts and Culture. It includes the early manuscripts and sketches of author J.K.
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Vaccinate yourself against fake news
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/02/vaccinate-yourself-against-fake-news/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2018 Using a new online game developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge and Dutch media collective DROG .
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How much fake news is there?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/30/how-much-fake-news-is-there/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 30, 2018 A frightening new report from the Oxford Internet institute has a Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation.
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UNESCO’s Internet Universality Indicators
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/10/unescos-internet-universality-indicators/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 10, 2018 This is based on 4 principles.
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Boots Archive timeline
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/16/boots-archive-timeline/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 16, 2017 Chemist store Boots has just released a fascinating timeline of images about its company history which economic historians may find useful.
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Ken Weir
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/author/khw11/
Censoring Academics works well for Publishers Posted by Ken Weir in School of Business Blog on June 18, 2014 Kenneth Weir, Lecturer in Accountancy at the School, examines the popularity of a controversial article which he, David Harvie, Geoff Lightfoot and Simon Lilley,...
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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...
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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.