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• Autograph letter collection, second batch

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/07/04/autograph-letter-collection-second-batch/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 4, 2023 A second batch of letters from the  Autograph Letter Collection   totalling 3,200 letters. This collection contains letters of prominent correspondents dating from 1851 to 1975.

• What are children worried about?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/09/04/what-are-children-worried-about/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 4, 2017 The latest annual Good Childhood report from the Children’s Society measures children’s subject well-being and happiness.

• Living wage level raised

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/living-wage-level-raised/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 The level of the living wage was raised by 40p an hour this week to £8.25.

• Global cost of dementia set to reach US $1 trillion by 2018…

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/28/global-cost-of-dementia-set-to-reach-us-1-trillion-by-2018/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 28, 2015 …according to the latest annual World Alzheimer report 2015 . It also includes literature reviews on the societal impact of dementia and evidence that its rate is increasing.

• Celebrating LGBT History month

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/12/celebrating-lgbt-history-month/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 12, 2016 February is LGBT History month http://lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/ Take a look at the Gay t-Shirt archive!   Wearing Gay History a digital archive of American LGBT t-shirts.

• What do students think of their courses?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/10/what-do-students-think-of-their-courses/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 10, 2016 Find out by downloading the 2016 Student academic experience survey from Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the Higher Education Academy.

• Creative memory of the Syrian revolution

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/12/15/creative-memory-of-the-syrian-revolution/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2017 The Creative Memory of the Syrian Revolution provides free access to over 23,000 documents available in Arabic, French and English relating to Syrian civil society resistance...

• World Friendship Day – July 30th

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/03/world-friendship-day-july-30th/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 3, 2018 World Friendship day- why it is bad to be lonely ? 30th July was designated International day of friendship by the United Nations.

• Congressional Reports Service website launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/05/congressional-reports-service-website-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2018 Recently launched, an official website which provides free access to non-confidential briefing papers and reports supplied to members of the US Congress.

• What is the current state of the Internet?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/04/what-is-the-current-state-of-the-internet/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 4, 2019 Find out in the latest annual report on the global rate of connection from the ITU. This year’s theme is Broadband as Foundation for Sustainable Development.