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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.

• New course in the anthropology of social media

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/18/new-course-in-the-anthropology-of-social-media/

  Posted by William Farrell in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 18, 2015 UCL have launched a free online course in the anthropology of social media. It will start on the 29 February and is open to anyone with an “interest in social media and people.

• New resource for European newspapers

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/18/new-resource-for-european-newspapers/

  Posted by William Farrell in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 18, 2016 Europeana Newspapers is a new resource that allows researchers to access digitised newspaper collections from 22 national libraries across Europe.

• 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...

• Offshore leaks database

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/13/offshore-leaks-database/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 13, 2016 A new enhanced website launched this week  by the International Committee of Investigative Journalists which contains all the resources from the Panama Papers tax-avoidance scandal...

• Community bank

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/29/community-bank/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 29, 2024 Dave Fishwick speaks to Radio 4’s Gap Finders about his community bank Burnley Savings and Loans. Listen on BBC Sounds or Box of Broadcasts (both available in the UK only).

• Wiener Digital Collections

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/02/28/wiener-digital-collections/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 28, 2025 The Weiner Holocaust Library in London has expanded its online materials.

• Key Note help videos

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/27/key-note-help-videos/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 27, 2015 Key Note has produced a suite of help videos; find them at https://www.keynote.co.

• Nashriyah: digital Iranian historic newspapers

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/05/nashriyah-digital-iranian-historic-newspapers/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 5, 2016 The University of Manchester now provides free access to a digital library of Iranian newspapers .

• Are emojis sexist?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/13/are-emojis-sexist/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 13, 2016 Certainly  Google engineers think so as they recently submitted a proposal to Unicode: s ee Expanding Emoji Professions: Reducing Gender Inequality for  13 proposed designs to...