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Historical Newspaper Archives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/14/historical-newspaper-archives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 14, 2015 The University has recently acquired some historical newspaper archives amongst which are the Daily Mail 1896-2004, the Independent 1986-2012 and Punch 1841-1992.
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Malala
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/13/malala/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 13, 2015 R eleased this week, He Named me Mala , the inspirational documentary on the young Nobel prize winner See her historic speech to the United Nations on their YouTube channel also...
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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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AI and news media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/06/14/ai-and-news-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 14, 2024 What does the public in 6 countries think of AI usage in the news? Reuters Institute for Journalism has surveyed awareness and use of generative AI by members of the public in six...
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Digital Literacies with Children
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/11/digital-literacies-with-children/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2024 Dr Cristina Costa, from Durham University School of Education, has been working on a digital literacy project with children at a County Durham primary school.
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Historic photographs: the changing workplace
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/29/2387/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 29, 2016 As part of a new exhibition, the Bank of England Archive has released some of its historic photographs online.
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Little Data book on Gender
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/31/little-data-book-on-gender/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 31, 2019 A new handy reference tool from the World Bank for those seeking accessible statistics on gender. It covers 217 countries, tracing progress in closing gender gaps between 2000-2017.
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Minecraft game: Uncensored Library
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/30/minecraft-game-uncensored-library/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2020 Uncensored Library by Reporters without Frontiers A minecraft game created by RSF which is filled with articles and websites which are censored in their countries of origin.
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Family Matters: How the 20th Century changed family life
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/11/30/family-matters-how-the-20th-century-changed-family-life/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2020 A new online exhibiton from Europeana which includes materials from Europe’s national libraries and archives.
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Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/01/19/armed-conflict-location-event-data-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 19, 2021 ACLED has now expanded real-time coverage to all of Europe, extending the dataset to 37 new countries and territories.