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Political Lobbying and PR
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/22/political-lobbying-and-pr/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2013 Interesting report issued by open.secrets.
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Charitable giving
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/04/20/charitable-giving/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2012 For research on charitable giving try these resources. Charities Aid foundation publishes UK giving https://www.cafonline.org/publications/2011-publications/uk-giving-2011.
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American Presidential Nominations
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/09/07/american-presidential-nominations/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 7, 2012 The American presidency project http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/nomination.php has a database of presidential nomination acceptance speeches from 1880 onwards.
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Crime statistics: India
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/01/04/crime-statistics-india/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 4, 2013 Following the depressing news of the rape case in India , the National Crime records Bureau India has official crime statistics. Search the website by keyword to find some materials.
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Journalists in danger
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/04/journalists-in-danger/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 4, 2013 A Day Without News http://adaywithoutnews.com/ Grassroots campaign with UN support to highlight the growing numbers of journalists who have been killed and injured in armed conflict.
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Internet enemies report 2012
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/23/internet-enemies-report-2012/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2012 Reporters without Borders has publishes the Internet Enemies 2012 Report http://march12.rsf.
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Asian Overview report – Social, digital and mobile media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/10/22/asian-overview-report-social-digital-and-mobile-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 22, 2012 http://wearesocial.
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Sandy: Crisis response
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/11/05/sandy-crisis-response/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 5, 2012 Crisis Response maps from Google: http://google.org/crisismap/2012-sandy marks disaster areas. Also highlights local emergency twitter feeds.
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Skylark Scholarship
https://le.ac.uk/study/undergraduates/scholarships-bursaries-discounts/skylark
The Skylark Scholarship programme has been established thanks to the generous support of philanthropic donors, who have made gifts to the University of Leicester to support talented home fee paying students facing financial challenges during their university studies.
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UN and other peacekeeping sites
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/31/un-and-other-peacekeeping-sites/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 31, 2013 Useful UN materials include Official twitter account for the latest news. Past missions with a timeline of past missions.