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Lauris Olson

Librarian & Coordinator of Social Sciences Collections

Lauris Olson

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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

Sep 7, 2018 31

A quick note on finding historical statistics on African colonies

Sep 13, 2019 193

African Studies

Sep 11, 2019 2919

ArcGIS: An Introduction

Sep 16, 2019 16

BENF 227: Global Health Justice and Governance

Dec 10, 2018 189

Blue Books for Colonial British Africa in the Penn Libraries

Jun 10, 2016 64

Botswana - General Information

Oct 9, 2018 49

China in Africa : Penn Libraries resources

Dec 10, 2018 642

Christian Missions in Africa

Apr 23, 2018 3

City Directories of the United States - Microform Collection

Jul 26, 2018 373

Community Health Data Base - Penn Libraries data resources

Dec 10, 2018 18

Conflict and Terrorism - Research Guide

Sep 11, 2019 119

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

Sep 11, 2019 831

Criminology - Research Guide

Sep 5, 2018 1154

Criminology Data and Statistics

Jun 20, 2018 13

Critical Writing Program: Legal Rights for Nature

Sep 11, 2019 1973

Oct 1, 2018 507

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

Sep 15, 2019 68

Disability Studies

Sep 1, 2018 194

DOTS and ITERATE - Terrorism incidents and terrorist biographies data

May 8, 2019 1940

Elections Data - Research Guide

Jul 16, 2019 88

Esri Data & Maps

Aug 16, 2019 653

Aug 8, 2019 880

Extracting Data from the General Social Survey (SOCI 120)

Apr 23, 2018 281

Federal Population Schedules - Microfilm Collection

May 17, 2019 1350

Gallup public opinion poll resources

Sep 11, 2019 949

Jul 16, 2018 0

Georeferencing Historic Maps

Apr 23, 2018 17

Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature - Microform Collection

Jul 16, 2018 0

Health and Society in Africa

Jun 13, 2016 245

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

Sep 6, 2017 3722

Historical Maps

Jul 16, 2018 39

HSOC 10: Health and Societies - Africa

Nov 16, 2018 59

HSOC 59: Medical Missionaries and Partners

Sep 7, 2018 97

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

May 14, 2019 435

ICRG Historical Datasets (International Country Risk Guide)

May 14, 2019 1783

ICRG Researcher's Datasets (International Country Risk Guide)

Jul 16, 2018 92

Intensity Maps with Fusion Tables

Dec 1, 2018 11737

International GIS Data

Jun 13, 2016 32

Introduction to ArcGIS: Map Design

Aug 6, 2019 154

LandScan Global

Jul 26, 2019 31

LAPOP

Jul 17, 2018 66

Sep 11, 2018 5

LPS: Economic Development

Sep 13, 2017 66

Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences

Apr 27, 2018 79

Medieval Manuscripts Microform Collection @ Penn Libraries

Jul 25, 2019 25

Mobile Coverage Explorer : GIS data

Jul 16, 2018 1273

Online Mapping Tools

Apr 1, 2019 109

Penn Dissertations on Africa

Jul 2, 2019 2576

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

Apr 25, 2018 15

People on War datasets, documentation

Dec 11, 2018 1028

Philadelphia History

Dec 11, 2018 1751

Philadelphia Maps and Geographic Information

Dec 11, 2018 2523

Philadelphia Neighborhood Research: URBS 210/ URBS 206

Sep 5, 2018 1501

Philadelphia Statistics

Dec 11, 2018 2087

Philadelphia Studies

Dec 10, 2018 215

Preparing Literature Reviews in the Social Sciences

Jul 16, 2018 7

PSCI 136: Urban Politics

Jan 29, 2018 447

PSYC 001 - Introduction to Experimental Psychology

Dec 10, 2018 95

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

Dec 10, 2018 31

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

Sep 25, 2018 136

Public Opinion Polls

Jul 16, 2018 1322

Dec 10, 2018 181

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, Philadelphia - Microform Collection

Aug 2, 2018 6

SOCI 004: The Family

Sep 11, 2018 56

SOCI 006 - Race & Ethnic Relations

Oct 15, 2018 55

SOCI 007: Population and Society

Jan 29, 2018 175

SOCI 010: Social Stratification

Feb 17, 2018 26

SOCI 041: Poverty and Inequality

Sep 11, 2018 32

SOCI 103 - Asian Americans in Contemporary Society

Oct 17, 2018 44

SOCI 111 / HSOC 111: Health of Populations Course Guide

Feb 7, 2019 466

Social Network Analysis

Sep 19, 2019 43

Sociology of Education

Jun 20, 2019 754

Sociology Research Guide

Dec 10, 2018 203

South Asia foreign relations

Feb 22, 2019 4356

Statistical Software

Sep 6, 2017 3

SWRK 601 Library Session

Jul 16, 2018 94

SWRK 730: Community Mapping

Jul 16, 2018 1921

U.S. Census Demographic Data

Jul 16, 2018 0

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

Feb 11, 2019 896

Urban Studies - Research Guide

Dec 11, 2018 65

URBS 103: Industrial Metropolis Course Guide

Feb 4, 2019 72

URBS 210: The Wire and the City

Sep 6, 2017 54

Jul 16, 2018 71

URBS 400: Senior Seminar

Oct 10, 2018 22

URBS 420: Perspectives on Urban Poverty

Sep 12, 2019 19

URBS 428: Research Seminar in 21st Century Urbanism

Sep 7, 2018 6

WER ZIP Code Changes Report dataset

Apr 23, 2018 6

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