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Equal pay day
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/11/09/equal-pay-day/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 9, 2012 A report from the Fawcett society claims a backward step for women in closing the gender pay gap in the UK. See other campaign material on their website for more reports and statistics.
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Watergate: more online releases from US government
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/13/watergate-more-online-releases-from-us-government/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 13, 2012 http://www.archives.gov/research/investigations/watergate/us-v-liddy.html The newly released documents come from the U.S. v.
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The power of twitter as a communication tool
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/03/the-power-of-twitter-as-a-communication-tool/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 3, 2012 http://fordschool.umich.edu/video/newest/1975704207001/ Useful video of a lecture by CEO Dick Costollo at the Ford School on November 2012.
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KOFI Annan Syria peace plan
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/04/27/kofi-annan-syria-peace-plan/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2012 http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2012/sc10583.doc.htm See the UN special envoy for Syria web page for details of the role of Kofi Annan http://www.un.
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US Elections and African Americans
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/30/us-elections-and-african-americans/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2012 The NAACP has declared that certain US states have introduced practices which are restricting black voting rights in the report Defending Democracy: Confronting Modern Barriers to...
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Global information technology report 2013
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/26/global-information-technology-report-2013/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 26, 2013 Global information technology report Released by World Economic Forum, this report includes Networked Readiness Index Rankings, country data profiles and Case Studies of ICT being...
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More on International Woman’s Day
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/13/more-on-international-womans-day/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 13, 2018 International Woman’s Day was celebrated on the 8 th March This year the theme was press for progress. In Spain over 5 million women joined a strike which was supported by local mayor.
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Governments and Facebook
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/04/governments-and-facebook/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 4, 2013 Government requests for data from Facebook Which governments request information the most from Facebook? First report from Facebook covers 6 months from January-June 2013.
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POOC in participatory media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/12/13/pooc-in-participatory-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 13, 2013 Media@McGill’s Participatory, Open, Online Course (or “POOC”) on The Participatory Condition Addresses the history, problems and possibilities of participatory media in contemporary...
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Celebrating International Women in Engineering Day
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/women-in-engineering
University of Leicester engineers Dr Jinning Zhang and Dr Emine Celiker speak on their experience in the discipline and the importance of more women working in science