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• Social Media and the Olympics

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/22/social-media-and-the-olympics/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 22, 2016 A great example of the use of Instagram to highlight street art in Rio.

• How digital is your Country?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/17/how-digital-is-your-country/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 17, 2017 The EU has released the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) , which gathers together more than 30 indicators ranking European nations according to themes such  as...

• Poverty in the UK

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/02/poverty-in-the-uk-2/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 2, 2019 4.5 million people are more than 50% below the poverty line, and 7 million people are living in persistent poverty in the UK.

• Chatham House ‘Best think tank in Western Europe’ 2015…

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/19/chatham-house-best-think-tank-in-western-europe-2015/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 19, 2016 …according to the 2015 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report an annual ranking produced by The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) at the University of Pennsylvania.

• USA Primaries – Useful resources

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/26/usa-primaries-useful-resources/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 26, 2016 What is a primary? find out with this handy guide to the US electoral system from Vote Smart.

• Recipe

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/recipe/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 As the BBC launch the demise of their online recipe website admin public outcry d iscover how the Web Archive is conserving the site forever.

• World Bank Archives Digitization

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/28/world-bank-archives-digitization/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 28, 2015 The World Bank Archives website is providing increasing free access to full text papers and documents as part of a digitization policy.

• Africa in Fact

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/04/africa-in-fact/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 4, 2015 Good Governance Africa is an organisation based in Africa which aims to improve government performance on the continent.

• Draft Investigatory Powers Bill: parliamentary report launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/12/draft-investigatory-powers-bill-parliamentary-report-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 12, 2016 Joint Committee on the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill has just published a report with 86 recommendations on improving the clarity of the bill.

• New United Nations app

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/12/new-united-nations-app/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 12, 2016 UNU Jargon Buster glossary app for smartphones has about 450 A-Z entries.  Find out what the many UN abbreviations mean including those of programmes and organisations.