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New United Nations app
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/12/new-united-nations-app/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 12, 2016 UNU Jargon Buster glossary app for smartphones has about 450 A-Z entries. Find out what the many UN abbreviations mean including those of programmes and organisations.
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Inspired by the Olympic Games
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/12/inspired-by-the-olympic-games/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 12, 2016 Get some facts and figures.
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UN Blue Book Series now online
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/25/un-blue-book-series-now-online/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 25, 2016 The UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library has digitized 19 books in this important series.
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Al Jazeera News game
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/11/al-jazeera-news-game/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2016 Interesting example of a game produced by Al Jazeera English which aims to raise questions about investigative journalism and cybersecurity: HACKED: Syria’s...
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Governments and Facebook
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/04/governments-and-facebook/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 4, 2013 Government requests for data from Facebook Which governments request information the most from Facebook? First report from Facebook covers 6 months from January-June 2013.
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POOC in participatory media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/12/13/pooc-in-participatory-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 13, 2013 Media@McGill’s Participatory, Open, Online Course (or “POOC”) on The Participatory Condition Addresses the history, problems and possibilities of participatory media in contemporary...
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KOFI Annan Syria peace plan
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/04/27/kofi-annan-syria-peace-plan/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2012 http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2012/sc10583.doc.htm See the UN special envoy for Syria web page for details of the role of Kofi Annan http://www.un.
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Equal pay day
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/11/09/equal-pay-day/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 9, 2012 A report from the Fawcett society claims a backward step for women in closing the gender pay gap in the UK. See other campaign material on their website for more reports and statistics.
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Watergate: more online releases from US government
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/13/watergate-more-online-releases-from-us-government/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 13, 2012 http://www.archives.gov/research/investigations/watergate/us-v-liddy.html The newly released documents come from the U.S. v.
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The power of twitter as a communication tool
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/03/the-power-of-twitter-as-a-communication-tool/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 3, 2012 http://fordschool.umich.edu/video/newest/1975704207001/ Useful video of a lecture by CEO Dick Costollo at the Ford School on November 2012.