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Women on Boards
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/04/women-on-boards-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2015 Latest 5 year progress summary from Lord Davies shows progress. Get the full data plus previous reports from the UK government website.
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Nashriyah: digital Iranian historic newspapers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/05/nashriyah-digital-iranian-historic-newspapers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 5, 2016 The University of Manchester now provides free access to a digital library of Iranian newspapers .
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Are emojis sexist?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/13/are-emojis-sexist/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 13, 2016 Certainly Google engineers think so as they recently submitted a proposal to Unicode: s ee Expanding Emoji Professions: Reducing Gender Inequality for 13 proposed designs to...
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EU Screen…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/09/03/eu-screen-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 3, 2012 …launches some great new themed collections. http://www.euscreen.eu/exhibitions.html This EU funded project aims to digitise clips and programmes from major collections in Europe.
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Bloomberg: assessing the Greek recovery
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/14/bloomberg-assessing-the-greek-recovery/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 14, 2013 Data compiled from the European Commission show economic sentiment in Greece has risen from its low last June. Concerns that Greece may exit the euro have subsided.
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Bloomberg: US film revenues
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/14/bloomberg-us-film-revenues/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 14, 2013 Superhero blockbusters such as “Man of Steel” boosted movie sales in the second quarter after U.S. cinema takings declined during the past two years.
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Bloomberg: Italy’s economy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/03/bloomberg-italys-economy/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2013 Analyzing Italy’s Economy as a New Government is Formed New Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta won the final confidence vote needed from the Italian Parliament to install his government...
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Bloomberg: Quantitative Easing
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/31/bloomberg-quantitative-easing/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 31, 2013 U.K. CPI dropped to a seven-month low last month, driven by lower energy prices. April’s 2.4 percent was less than economists’ median forecast of 2.6 percent.
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Longer lives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/21/longer-lives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2013 The UK government has launched a new public health site to provide citizens with easily accessible data about premature death and mortality rates: http://longerlives.phe.org.
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PingER – how bad is the Internet in Africa?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/08/pinger-how-bad-is-the-internet-in-africa/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2013 The PingER (Ping End-to-end Reporting) Internet End-to-end Performance Measurement (IEPM) project monitors performance of Internet links from over 700 sites in 160 nations.