Social Science sites of the week 22nd January 2021



In the news more covid

materials being added to the blog

https://socialsciencecurrentwareness.blogspot.com/

the London Society has put together a series of short articles/essays about how the pandemic could -- and should -- change London.


COVID-19 data portals and platforms list

UNRIC Info Point & Library website has a great listing of UN websites and portals providing reports and/or data on the crisis. They include valuable regional centre from the Global South


COVID-19 Data Futures Platform (UNDP)
Great new resource from UNDP which includes United nations and private sector resources . It enables researchers to access and visualise statistical data relating to impact of socio-economic policies and interventions . This can be browsed by theme or country.


COVID-19 Vaccine Market Dashboard (UNICEF)
UNICEF launched the COVID-19 Vaccine Market Dashboard on 21 December 2020 – an interactive tool for countries to follow the developments of the rapidly evolving COVID-19 vaccine market and the efforts of the COVAX Facility to ensure fair access. There are sections on vaccine supply, price and agreements


Inauguration

Here are some recommended resources

US senate has a list of dates off all recent ceremonies
many examples have links to digitised images of official photographs or paintings plus ephemera such as tickets

U.S. Presidential Inaugurations: "I Do Solemnly Swear..."A Resource Guide
From the Library of Congress
This Web guide includes diaries and letters written by presidents and those who witnessed the inaugurations, handwritten drafts of inaugural addresses, broadsides, inaugural tickets and programs, prints, photographs, and sheet music.

C Span coverage of 2021
newsmuseum- stores recent front pages from newspapers
https://newseumed.org/curated-stack/archived-todays-front-pages-key-moments-history

Trump Twitter archive
has stored tweets from September 2016 until the account was suspended in January 2020. Items can be downloaded in csv files.

Disabled Students Commission annual report.

useful information on issues faced by British disabled students during the pansdemic information on the support received and challenges ahead

see more on our scoop it page https://www.scoop.it/topic/higher-education-news-for-libraries-and-librarians

Which jobs are at risk from AI automation?
NESTA has made available on the Mapping Career Causeways GitHub repository open source codes for mapping which jobs are most at risk from AI so that researchers can investigate topics themselves

Digital Catalogue of a Photographic Archive of Cairo
- The Photographs of Beniamino Facchinelli (1839-1895) .

The catalogue currently features over 700 reproductions of images from the holdings of six libraries and museums worldwide which show buildings and life in Cairo in the 19th century. All images were authenticated through cross-referencing, and their original captions are listed in the entries, as well as the albums and publications where they were reproduced. It includes a documentation on buildings which have either disappeared since then, or been radically transformed in course of restoration; it also includes rare views on their furnishings.

LSE Digital Library’s AtoM platform.

Now contains expanded content new items include:
Charles Booth Digitised Archives
Digitised content includes PDF files of all the police notebooks providing users with easier access. It also includes all printed maps and all original hand-coloured maps
LSE Calendars
for the first time online, the entire series of LSE Calendars 1896 -2003 when the School stopped publishing in printed version. These include overviews of course and curriculum content enabling trends to be mapped. They also list award winners


Step Inside The Museum of Obsolete Library Science
Associate Museum Librarian John Lindaman discusses the history of technology in Thomas J. Watson Library. Great images of old manuals and. Library stamps!
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Heather Dawson

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