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Pandemic Through the Lens of Google Searches
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/12/18/pandemic-through-the-lens-of-google-searches/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 18, 2020 Evolution of the Pandemic Through the Lens of Google Searches New data from the World Bank .
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Library of Congress digitises more early Presidential Papers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/01/11/library-of-congress-digitises-more-early-presidential-papers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 11, 2021 Recently added are: Papers of President Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) Papers of President William Howard Taft (1857-1930) Papers of President Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) Papers...
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Digital Verification Corps
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/01/19/digital-verification-corps/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 19, 2021 The Digital Verification Corps is a network of volunteers from 6 universities worldwide trained to verify social media videos and photos of potential human rights violations.
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Which jobs are at risk from AI automation?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/01/25/which-jobs-are-at-risk-from-ai-automation/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 25, 2021 A report from Nesta, Mapping Career Causeways: Supporting workers at risk , looks at jobs at risk from AI and how workers can transition to similar posts which are less precarious.
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The female Form through time
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/04/15/the-female-form-through-time/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2021 The female Form through time: Google Arts and Culture exhibition Online resource curated by the Discovery Museum which shows how fashion, clothing and culture have dictated...
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UNCTAD COVID-19 Response Portal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/05/17/unctad-covid-19-response-portal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2021 United Nations Conference on trade and development has launched a new portal with data on the impact of Covid-19 on manufacturing, trade and foreign direct investment. It has 25 indicators.
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Early Modern Manuscripts from National Library of Scotland
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/10/07/early-modern-manuscripts-from-national-library-of-scotland/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2022 An addition to the online digital collection. Over 240 rare medieval and early modern manuscripts are now available from the early manuscripts website .
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Taube Archive of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, 1945-1946
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/03/27/taube-archive-of-the-international-military-tribunal-at-nuremberg-1945-1946/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 27, 2023 The archive of the IMT is now online via the Stanford Libraries and the Stanford Center for Human Rights and International Justice website .
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Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/04/29/global-entrepreneurship-and-development-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2014 The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index Free access to this annual index of nations ranked according to how conducive they are to entrepreneurial...
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Measuring rural poverty
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/04/29/measuring-rural-poverty/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2014 Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool (MPAT) The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has just released this new tool which can be used to measure rural...