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How has the Internet changed scholarly communication?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/20/how-has-the-internet-changed-scholarly-communication/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 20, 2015 Useful briefing from the Association of Research Libraries journal which gives a basic overview changes of trends in academic publishing since 1990s, covering journals online books...
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Rise Up: digital archive of Canadian Feminism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/10/rise-up-digital-archive-of-canadian-feminism/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 10, 2018 Covering the period 1970-1990. This resource from a women’s collective has a wealth of information.
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Enhanced access to data from International Telecommunications Union
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/08/16/enhanced-access-to-data-from-itu-international-telecommunications-union/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2012 http://www.itu.int/ The ITU collects data on mobile phones, internet use and access worldwide. Its website offers some free statistics.
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War of the Worlds Letters
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/04/11/war-of-the-world-letters/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 11, 2025 A digital library collection from the University of Michigan , The Richard Wilson – Orson Welles Papers preserves 1,349 letters sent to the New York City office of Orson Welles’s...
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The Barnardo’s Oral History project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/10/18/the-barnardos-oral-history-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 18, 2024 This project includes : The personal experience of Vice President, Baroness Floella Benjamin who came to Britain from Trinidad and Tobago as a small child A...
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Voices and Visibility
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/12/voices-and-visibility/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 12, 2016 The Voices and Visibility poster, http://lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Wall-Chart-A0_V7.2_low.
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Register to vote
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/21/register-to-vote/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 21, 2015 Register to vote in UK national, local and EU elections. More information at http://www.aboutmyvote.co.uk/register-to-vote and http://www.ucu.org.
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Rosa Parks digital collection
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/04/rosa-parks-digital-collection/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 4, 2016 Just released by the Library of Congress, this great new online resource celebrating the life, civil rights achievements and legacy of Rosa Parks whose refusal to give up a seat to a...
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How can UK universities improve the teaching of quantitative research methods in the Social Sciences
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/how-can-uk-universities-improve-the-teaching-of-quantitative-research-methods-in-the-social-sciences/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 This is the topic of a major new report just published by the British Academy . It calls for a greater emphasis upon developing skills more extensively and earlier in courses.
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New 5-volume open-access study on Antisemitism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/11/22/new-5-volume-open-access-study-on-antisemitism/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2021 De Gruyter have just made free to download : An End to Antisemitism! the outcome of an international high-level conference that was held in Vienna in 2018 as a collaboration...