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• Kae Tempest

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/11/30/kae-tempest/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2023 Documentary about trans rapper, playwright, novelist and poet Kae Tempest. Follows them on their rap tour but also as they transition. Only available to watch in the UK.

• 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...

• Race and Higher Education

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/03/race-and-higher-education/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2019 Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic student attainment at UK universities: #closingthegap Universities UK A report setting out five steps universities can take to help close the attainment...

• Bloomberg: offshore yuan values

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/17/bloomberg-offshore-yuan-values/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2013 The offshore yuan weakened on May 6 by the most since 2011 after Chinese regulators announced a probe of export data and new restrictions on loans.

• Longer lives

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/21/longer-lives/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2013 The UK government has launched a new public health site to provide citizens with easily accessible data about premature death and mortality rates: http://longerlives.phe.org.

• American Federation of Labor records now online

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/02/07/american-federation-of-labor-records-now-online/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2020 Available to researchers from the Library of Congress Website .

• British boards do not reflect ethnic diversity

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/04/british-boards-do-not-reflect-ethnic-diversity/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2016 The conclusion from the Parker review published this week which recommends quotas to enhance BAME employment prospects. See the CBI reaction.

• Innovative use of social media in the Pakistan elections

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/17/innovative-use-of-social-media-in-the-pakistan-elections/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2013 The Election commission worked with a site called Jaag Pakistan website which aimed to encourage reporting of electoral fraud and violence. This  used crowd sourced technology.