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• US Elections 2016

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/02/us-elections-2016/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 2, 2016 Political Bots:  are they manipulating the USA Presidential elections? An interesting project on digital politics and algorithms which is considering how the use of automated...

• NI Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/04/ni-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2016 Brendan Duddy Papers at NUI Galway. A new digital collection.

• Online newspaper archives

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/12/16/online-newspaper-archives/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 16, 2016 A really useful listing from Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR) blog which draws together in one place an A-Z listing of links to news resources that can be difficult to...

• Budget day

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/08/budget-day/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2017 Today (8th March) is budget day- keep up with the news and views – with our selection of academic resources.

• Do young people trust the news?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/10/do-young-people-trust-the-news/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 10, 2017 Fascinating report from the Knight Foundation which  focusses on findings from qualitative research with 52 teenagers and young adults in three U.S.

• Brexit Digital Library Collection

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/31/brexit-digital-library-collection/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 31, 2017 With the triggering of Article 50, here is an opportunity to compare the 1975 and 2016 EU referendum campaigns.

• Politwoops and other Twitter-related sites

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/10/politwoops-and-other-twitter-related-sites/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 10, 2013 Politwoops: (deleted tweets from politicians ) enables keyword searching for deleted tweets. It is offered in a number of countries.

• UN and other peacekeeping sites

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/31/un-and-other-peacekeeping-sites/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 31, 2013 Useful UN materials include Official twitter account for the latest news. Past missions with a  timeline of past missions.

• SIPRI

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/21/sipri/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2013 SIPRI Yearbook 2013  –  f rom the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

• UK Postal Service

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/15/uk-postal-service/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 15, 2013 This week UK government confirmed that Royal Mail will be floated on the Stock Exchange  Royal Mail: myth-busters – Answers common misconceptions about the government’s...