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New York Public Library Digital Collections enhanced access
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/29/new-york-public-library-digital-collections-enhanced-access/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 29, 2016 From January 2016 the New York Public library provides enhanced public domain access to its online collections which include thousands of stunning historical images.
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What contributes to school students well-being?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/04/24/what-contributes-to-school-students-well-being/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 24, 2017 Find out by reading the latest OECD PISA reports. This also provides country surveys which consider where teenagers feel happiest.
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Are you addicted to your smartphone?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/07/are-you-addicted-to-your-smartphone/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 7, 2015 According to the latest Ofcom communications market report more people use smartphones than laptops. 33% regard it as their most used device for going online rather than a laptop.
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Living Home Standard launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/10/21/living-home-standard-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 21, 2016 Shelter in conjunction with user research from IPSO Mori has launched a new Living Home Standard based on 42 criteria which members of the public feel should be used to assess housing...
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‘Average income back to pre-recession levels’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/09/average-income-back-to-pre-recession-levels/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 9, 2015 According to the latest research from IFS.
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Women & Global Diplomacy: From Peace Movements to the UN
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/03/women-global-diplomacy-from-peace-movements-to-the-un/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 3, 2018 A new webguide from UN Archives Geneva combines primary and secondary sources from both the archives and library of the United Nations at Geneva.
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Police and hate crime
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/31/police-and-hate-crime/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 31, 2018 Do the police investigate hate crime properly? Serious concerns have been raised this week by an HMIC inspection report.
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Presidential debates
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/10/22/presidential-debates/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 22, 2012 See video footage and transcripts from the official Commission on presidential debates: http://www.debates.
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The Morning after Brexit
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2016/07/05/the-morning-after-brexit/
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on July 5, 2016 Brendan Lambe. Lecturer in Finance and an Irish European, reflects on the meaning of the referendum. On the morning of the 24 th of June we awoke to a Britain which had changed utterly.
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Emoji is the fastest growing language
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/19/emoji-is-the-fastest-growing-language/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2015 Emoji’s are ‘pictographs. Originally used in Japanese electronic messages, many characters have now been incorporated into Unicode and the launch of Emoj.li.