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Lauris Olson

Librarian & Coordinator of Social Sciences Collections

Lauris Olson

Contact:

University of Pennsylvania Libraries
203 Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
University of Pennsylvania
3420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206
U.S.A.

215-898-0119

Africa. General Social Sciences. Communication, Criminology, Economics, Law (social & political aspects), Linguistics, Political Science, Sociology, Urban Studies. Government documents. Numeric & spatial data.

My Guides

Jul 16, 2018 0

20th Century African History and Politics - Research Guide

Aug 6, 2020 25

A quick note on finding historical statistics on African colonies

Dec 10, 2019 139

African Studies

Apr 30, 2020 999

ALC : Africana Librarians Council

Jun 24, 2020 2638

ArcGIS: An Introduction

Oct 31, 2019 27

Asian Americans : Sociology

Sep 16, 2019 28

BENF 227: Global Health Justice and Governance

Dec 10, 2018 216

Blue Books for Colonial British Africa in the Penn Libraries

Jun 10, 2016 40

Botswana - General Information

Apr 18, 2020 70

China in Africa : Penn Libraries resources

Dec 10, 2018 691

Christian Missions in Africa

Apr 23, 2018 5

City Directories of the United States - Microform Collection

Mar 4, 2020 345

Community Health Data Base - Penn Libraries data resources

Jun 26, 2020 20

Conflict and Terrorism - Research Guide

Jul 9, 2020 41

CRIM 410: Senior Research Seminar: Experiments in Crime and Justice

Jul 9, 2020 654

Criminology - Research Guide

Jul 2, 2020 801

Criminology Data and Statistics

Jun 20, 2018 9

Critical Writing Program: Legal Rights for Nature

Jun 24, 2020 1578

Oct 1, 2018 457

Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections - data files - Penn Libraries data resources

Dec 11, 2019 69

Disability Studies

Sep 1, 2018 142

DOTS and ITERATE - Terrorism incidents and terrorist biographies data

May 8, 2019 1280

Elections Data - Research Guide

Jul 16, 2019 62

Esri Data & Maps

Feb 25, 2020 649

Aug 8, 2019 813

Extracting Data from the General Social Survey (SOCI 120)

Apr 23, 2018 79

Federal Population Schedules - Microfilm Collection

Jul 1, 2020 1111

Gallup public opinion poll resources

Sep 11, 2019 693

Jul 16, 2018 0

Georeferencing Historic Maps

Apr 23, 2018 34

Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature - Microform Collection

Jul 16, 2018 0

Health and Society in Africa

Jun 13, 2016 204

HIST 187: The Making of Modern South Africa - Finding Primary Sources

Sep 6, 2017 4640

Historical Maps

Jan 20, 2020 25

HSOC 10: Health and Societies - Africa

Oct 22, 2019 43

HSOC 59: Medical Missionaries and Partners

Jan 6, 2020 111

ICMA Survey Research Datasets - data files - Penn Libraries data resources

May 14, 2019 319

ICRG Historical Datasets (International Country Risk Guide)

May 14, 2019 1853

ICRG Researcher's Datasets (International Country Risk Guide)

Jul 16, 2018 48

Intensity Maps with Fusion Tables

Jan 3, 2020 11151

International GIS Data

Jun 13, 2016 24

Introduction to ArcGIS: Map Design

Nov 12, 2019 115

LandScan Global

Jul 26, 2019 128

LAPOP

Oct 9, 2019 67

Jan 20, 2020 40

LPS: Economic Development

Feb 24, 2020 76

Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences

Apr 27, 2018 198

Medieval Manuscripts Microform Collection @ Penn Libraries

Jul 25, 2019 340

Mobile Coverage Explorer : GIS data

Mar 5, 2020 1131

Online Mapping Tools

Apr 1, 2019 128

Penn Dissertations on Africa

Jul 2, 2019 195

Penn Reading Project 2019-2020 : Weapons of Math Destruction / Cathy O'Neil

Apr 25, 2018 35

People on War datasets, documentation

Dec 11, 2018 1080

Philadelphia History

Dec 11, 2018 1666

Philadelphia Maps and Geographic Information

Dec 11, 2018 2406

Philadelphia Neighborhood Research: URBS 210/ URBS 206

Jan 20, 2020 730

Philadelphia Statistics

Jan 20, 2020 2143

Philadelphia Studies

Dec 10, 2018 200

Preparing Literature Reviews in the Social Sciences

Jul 16, 2018 8

PSCI 136: Urban Politics

Jan 29, 2018 256

PSYC 001 - Introduction to Experimental Psychology

Dec 10, 2018 146

PSYC 470-302: Friendship & Attraction (Fall 2015)

Dec 10, 2018 25

PSYC 480-301: Modern Young Adulthood (Fall 2016)

Oct 23, 2019 115

Public Opinion Polls

Jul 16, 2018 1134

Feb 10, 2020 277

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, Philadelphia - Microform Collection

Aug 2, 2018 13

SOCI 004: The Family

Sep 11, 2018 39

SOCI 006 - Race & Ethnic Relations

Nov 5, 2019 51

SOCI 007: Population and Society

Jan 29, 2018 146

SOCI 010: Social Stratification

Feb 17, 2018 32

SOCI 041: Poverty and Inequality

Sep 11, 2018 21

SOCI 103 - Asian Americans in Contemporary Society

Dec 8, 2019 69

SOCI 111 / HSOC 111: Health of Populations Course Guide

Feb 7, 2019 700

Social Network Analysis

Oct 31, 2019 43

Sociology of Education

Aug 7, 2020 488

Sociology Research Guide

Dec 13, 2019 726

South Asia foreign relations

Jul 1, 2020 3170

Statistical Software

Sep 6, 2017 12

SWRK 601 Library Session

Jul 16, 2018 43

SWRK 730: Community Mapping

Jul 16, 2018 1161

U.S. Census Demographic Data

Jul 16, 2018 0

U.S.Elections: Historical and Contemporary - Research Guide

Feb 25, 2020 763

Urban Studies - Research Guide

Dec 11, 2018 168

URBS 103: Industrial Metropolis Course Guide

Jan 10, 2020 81

URBS 210: The Wire and the City

Feb 21, 2020 68

Feb 3, 2020 72

URBS 400: Senior Seminar

Oct 10, 2018 28

URBS 420: Perspectives on Urban Poverty

Feb 25, 2020 47

URBS 428: Research Seminar in 21st Century Urbanism

Sep 7, 2018 9

WER ZIP Code Changes Report dataset

Apr 23, 2018 15

Witchcraft in Europe and America - Microform Collection

My Subject Specialties

African Studies Aging Studies Communication Criminology Data & GIS Economics Food Studies Health & Societies International Relations Law Linguistics Philadelphia Studies Political Science Population Studies & Demography Public Policy & Administration Social Sciences Sociology Urban Studies