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Secrets of the Museum
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/19/secrets-of-the-museum/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 19, 2024 The BBC recently repeated the 2021 series of Secrets of the Museum, a behind-the-scenes look at the work of the conservators and curators at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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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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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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Surveys: displaced people
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/01/13/surveys-displaced-people/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2025 UNHCR and the World Bank-UNHCR Joint Data Center Questionnaire Dashboard enables users to explore questionnaires hosted on the Microdata Library related to forced displacement.
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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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3 open-access books about Social Media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/04/3-open-access-books-about-social-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 4, 2016 How the World Changed Social Media: Download free from http://bit.ly/24AUbKH Social Media in an English Village: Download free from http://bit.
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Global State of Freedom of Information is ‘worrying’…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/03/global-state-of-freedom-of-information-is-worrying/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2016 …according to the annual Open Data Barometer from the World Wide Web Foundation. It says that only 50% of the 92 included countries have ‘reasonably strong’ laws.
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Vacant properties
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/09/vacant-properties/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 9, 2017 Who owns property and leaves it empty? Recently the Grenfell tower tragedy has exposed the scandal of unoccupied foreign owner property in the UK.
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Consumer behaviour in the UK (Black Friday/Christmas)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/24/consumer-behaviour-in-the-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 24, 2017 PWC retail outlook has predictions for the UK economy It also has the results of a recent survey on predicted shopping/ consumer behaviour for Black Friday in 2017.
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World Economic Forum Transformation Maps
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/24/world-economic-forum-transformation-maps/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 24, 2017 First created in 2015 to map and visualize complex changes associated with globalisation, these resources are now freely available to the public. Over 120 issues are covered.